Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade Author: | Language: English | ISBN:
B00I4A43BA | Format: EPUB
Blood Will Out: The True Story of a Murder, a Mystery, and a Masquerade Description
An In Cold Blood for our time, a chilling, compulsive story of a writer unwittingly caught in the wake of a grifter-turned-murderer.
In the summer of 1998, Walter Kirn - then an aspiring novelist struggling with impending fatherhood and a dissolving marriage - set out on a peculiar, fateful errand: to personally deliver a crippled hunting dog from his home in Montana to the New York apartment of one Clark Rockefeller, a secretive young banker and art collector who had adopted the dog over the Internet. Thus began a 15-year relationship that drew Kirn deep into the fun-house world of an outlandish, eccentric son of privilege who ultimately would be unmasked as a brazen serial impostor, child kidnapper, and brutal murderer.
Kirn's one-of-a-kind story of being duped by a real-life Mr. Ripley takes us on a bizarre and haunting journey from the posh private clubrooms of Manhattan to the hard-boiled courtrooms and prisons of Los Angeles. As Kirn uncovers the truth about his friend, a psychopath masquerading as a gentleman, he also confronts hard truths about himself. Why, as a writer of fiction, was he susceptible to the deception of a sinister fantasist whose crimes, Kirn learns, were based on books and movies? What are the hidden psychological links between the artist and the con man? To answer these and other questions, Kirn attends his old friend's murder trial and uses it as an occasion to reflect on both their tangled personal relationship and the surprising literary sources of Rockefeller's evil. This investigation of the past climaxes in a tense jailhouse reunion with a man whom Kirn realizes he barely knew - a predatory, sophisticated genius whose life, in some respects, parallels his own and who may have intended to take another victim during his years as a fugitive from justice: Kirn himself.
Combining confessional memoir, true crime reporting, and cultural speculation, Blood Will Out is a Dreiser-esque tale of self-in...
- Audible Audio Edition
- Listening Length: 7 hours and 15 minutes
- Program Type: Audiobook
- Version: Unabridged
- Publisher: Audible, Inc.
- Audible.com Release Date: March 3, 2014
- Whispersync for Voice: Ready
- Language: English
- ASIN: B00I4A43BA
At the outset, I must admit I have met the man who called himself, Clark Rockfeller. He and his wife and daughter lived in a summer home near me. I had met him at an outing. He was an ebullient man, his wife young and very nice. Until the town learned who this man really was, he was well liked and he contributed financially to local events. This book, I believe, and the search for reasons why Clark Rockefeller was able to dupe so many people, will ring true for many people.
Walter Kirn was a writer, living in Montana with his wife. They were trying to make ends meet. His wife worked at the local animal shelter, and they had a dog who needed to be transported to New York City. Walter Kirn volunteered to drive the animal. It was there that he met, the dog's new owner, Clark Rockefeller. A charming, sauve fellow, and Walter felt an immediate connection to Clarke. He was ebullient, a man from a very wealthy family, a man with a lot of connections. As time went on, phone calls, letters, emails ensued. They became friends and visited each other. All was fine until, Clark Rockefeller and his wife separated. She had finally realized all was not 'right' with her husband. Child custody was a question, and Clark absconded with his daughter. An FBI alert was sounded and soon the child and her father were found. It was during this arrest that the identity of Clark Rockefeller was questioned, and the truth was discovered.
Walter Kirn was shocked, and he shares his shock at the discoveries. He tries to analyze why he was taken in by this man. Was there something missing in Walter that he could be so duped? Walter Kirn went to the trial of the man he knew as 'Clark Rockefeller', to try and figure out this man. In reality, Clark Rockefeller duped and confounded everyone he met.
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