Overview
āMikita Brottman is one of todayās finest practitioners of nonfiction.ā
āThe New York Times Book Review
Critically acclaimed author and psychoanalyst Mikita Brottman offers literary true crime writing at its best, taking us into the life of a murderer after his convictionāwhen most stories end but the defendant's life goes on.
On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that heād shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said heād been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled ānot criminally responsibleā for the murders on grounds of insanity.
But after the trial, where do the "criminally insane" go? Brottman reveals Brian's inner life leading up to the murder, as well as his complicated afterlife in a maximum security psychiatric hospital, where he is neither imprisoned nor free. During his 27 years at the hospital, Brian has tried to escape and been shot by police, and has witnessed three patient-on-patient murders. Heās experienced the drugging of patients beyond recognition, a sadistic system of rewards and punishments, and the short-lived reign of a crazed psychiatrist-turned-stalker.
In the tradition of One Flew Over The Cuckooās Nest, Couple Found Slain is an insiderās account of life in the underworld of forensic psych wards in America and the forgotten lives of those held there, often indefinitely.
This book title, Couple Found Slain (After a Family Murder) - 9781250839008, ISBN: 9781250839008, by Mikita Brottman, published by Henry Holt and Co. (July 5, 2022) is available in paperback. Our minimum order quantity is 25 copies. All standard bulk book orders ship FREE in the continental USA and delivered in 4-10 business days.
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