A Death in Belmont. Sebastian Junger

      SEBASTIAN JUNGER

       A Death in Belmont

       COPYRIGHT

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      First published in the UK by Fourth Estate 2006

      Originally published by W. W. Norton in the United States 2006

      Copyright © Sebastian Junger 2006

      Sebastian Junger asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work

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       DEDICATION

      FOR MY MOTHER, ELLEN SINCLAIR JUNGER

       EPIGRAPH

      And they said to the Prophet, “How may we stop our ears to the rant of the fool and yet show him charity?”

      And he answered, “You show yourselves charity by opening wide your ears to him. The fool in the midst of his babble shall speak truths which the minds of the wise cannot perceive.”

      —unattributed quote pinned to the office

      wall of a Massachusetts appellate lawyer

      CONTENTS

       Cover

       Title Page

Copyright

Dedication

Epigraph

A Note on Quotes

Part 1: The Murder

One

Two

Three

Four

Five

Six

Seven

       Eight

       Nine

       Ten

       Part 2: The Trial

       Eleven

       Twelve

       Thirteen

       Fourteen

       Fifteen

       Sixteen

       Seventeen

       Part 3: The Confessions

       Eighteen

       Nineteen

       Twenty

       Twenty-one

       Twenty-two

       Twenty-three

       Twenty-four

       Twenty-five

       Twenty-six

       Twenty-seven

       September 2005