The True Crime Book Club meets the first Saturday of each month to discuss the previous month's book. June's book is Couple Found Slain by Makita Brottman.
On February 21, 1992, 22-year-old Brian Bechtold walked into a police station in Port St. Joe, Florida and confessed that he’d shot and killed his parents in their family home in Silver Spring, Maryland. He said he’d been possessed by the devil. He was eventually diagnosed with schizophrenia and ruled “not criminally responsible” 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.
Makita Brottman has been called "one of today’s finest practitioners of nonfiction” by The New York Times Book Review. We have several copies of her new book, Couple Found Slain, as part of our Book kits at the Benton branch. Check it out; then, join us to discuss this very different True Crime read.
The Mabel Boswell Memorial Library is located off of Reynolds Road in Bryant.