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| Eye of the Beast: The True Story of Serial Killer James Wood (St. Martin's True Crime Library) | 
 enlarge | Authors: Terry Adams, Mary Brooks-mueller, Scott Shaw
Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  12 reviews
Sales Rank: 1047968
Media: Mass Market Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 272
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.4
Dimensions (in): 6.9 x 4.2 x 0.8
ISBN: 0312968825
Dewey Decimal Number: 364
EAN: 9780312968823
ASIN: 0312968825
Publication Date: February 15, 1999
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Product Description
For a serial killer, his style is unique. No elaborate rituals. No predetermine victims. Just an instant, uncontrollable urge to kill.
On a summer afternoon in 1993, an eleven-year-old girl sets out through her familiar neighborhood to collect payments on her paper route. In one home she meets a harmless-looking stranger. Driven by an unstoppable desire, James Wood will make this route her last.
The grisly murder of Jeralee Underwood was the final crime in James Wood's lifetime career of armed robbery, kidnapping, rape, and murder. Not until the Underwood case, which brought terror to a close-knit Idaho community, did crime experts begin to piece together a detailed profile of Wood's depraved personality and successfully hunt him down. Unlike other serial killers, Wood acted purely on impulse, to strike out the instincts of a bloodthirsty predator. Based on four years of meticulous researched by the detective who captured Wood, and other forensic experts on the case, this is the true story of how a sociopath is bred-and what it takes to trap him at his own deadly game.
With eight pages of startling photos!
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A compulsive predator. April 28, 2008
This book chronicles some of the crimes of James Wood. He was a sociopath made more dangerous because he was so compulsive.
Woods had talent as an artist and most of the time he was viewed as overly friendly. Too much so for some people that he met.
The real hero in the book was Scott Shaw,who connected with Woods well enough to ultimately get a confession and closure on the case of Jeralee Underwood,the 11 year old girl that was his last victim. Along the way, Shaw got confessions about another local rape that could have easily had the same end result as the Underwood case. Woods also confessed to a rape and attempted murder of another teen girl in the St.Louis area.
He eventually solved more than 40 sex crimes and 180 armed robberies that were committed by Woods. Scott Shaw got a close look at the very twisted mind of an unusual type of killer.
Shaw's perception was instrumental when he linked the rape with the later murder and insisted the perpetrator was local,contradicting the profile by the F.B.I.
Some of James Wood's cousins broke the case with information that they provided to the police.
This book is researched thoroughly and it is hard to put this down once you start reading it.
 Very close to home December 24, 2007
I grew up just outside of Pocatello, Idaho and was the same age as Jaralee Underwood when she was kidnapped and murdered. James Wood haunted my dreams for many years and I was completely sickened by the things he did and the fact that he was even able to do the things he did...the man should never have walked out of the the Louisiana prison in the first place. What a sick awful man.
Good True Crime Novel June 24, 2003
This is a well written book that I believe does a good job of exploring the life of James Woods. I recommend this as a good read for any true crime buff who is interested in serial murders.
well done story December 21, 2001
2 out of 3 found this review helpful
a very good read,couldnt put it down.i really admired detective shaw-he gave me a good perspective on this sick (...).
 Poorly written. March 31, 2001
5 out of 7 found this review helpful
I read approximately 6-7 books a week, and this is the first book that has prompted me to write a review...EVER. This book is poorly written because it never gives the reader reasons why this man became who he is...no history is provided for the reader to understand how a man could do the crimes he committed. I too, read this book in one sitting, mostly because I wanted to get the horror of it over with quickly. Whomever edited the book must have been in another world that day, because the author's thoughts are convoluted most of the time and I found myself wondering what he was trying to say. The amount of errors in proof-reading this book is distracting and the book should be corrected and reprinted. No history, no details, no train of thought involved in writing this book - just the author telling a story that has been written over and over again by better writers than this one.
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