Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains

For those who enjoy reading true crime drama, Casey Sherman's Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains is a fair, but gritty account of events that took place in May 2007 here in New Hampshire.

When three very different men came together on a country road in Franconia a violent series of events played out leaving two men dead, one a policeman, the other a young man from a well known local family.  Both men knew each other and were part of the same community.

The third man involved in the violence, who was exonerated of charges by the Attorney General the following day, turned out to be a "loose cannon" by anyone's definition.  He often threatened to shoot people.  One of his favorite sayings was he'd give you a "third eye."  At the crime scene, he bragged about how many people he'd killed in his life, threatened early by-standers who came to see what was happening, and had to be told several times by the first police officer on the scene to drop the gun he held.  It was later learned he was taking over 20 prescription drugs at the time.

Sherman gives the reader all sides of the story as well as the reaction of the community.  The account of this unfortunate event is both disturbing and compelling in its insight into human nature.  Adult content and some inappropriate language in quotations.

-Jennifer