Sniper: The True Story of Anti-Abortion Killer James Kopp

by Jon Wells

Overview

Award-winning journalist Jon Wells reveals the life story and charts the three-year international manhunt for one of the FBI's most wanted killers, James Charles Kopp

Part detective story, part noir psychological thriller, Sniper tells the disturbing and compelling story of how anti-abortion radical James Kopp hunted down physicians in Canada and the US who were performing abortion services. Wells visits Kopp's home town in California and follows his trail across Canada and Europe, taking readers inside the mind of Kopp, the son of a US marine, who believed he was on a righteous mission to save fetuses. The book also details how American and Canadian police and the FBI collaborated to bring the elusive Kopp down in France, following the murder of Dr. Barnett Slepian, an obstetrician, in Buffalo, New York.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781443430203
Publisher:	HarperCollins Canada
Publication date:	11/05/2013
Sold by:	HARPERCOLLINS
Format:	eBook
Pages:	320
File size:	5 MB

About the Author

JON WELLS reports on crime and a variety of other subjects for The Hamilton Spectator, and he has written seven books. He has won four National Newspaper Awards and twenty-three Ontario Newspaper Awards, including Journalist of the Year for his true-crime series "Sniper" on James Kopp. Post-Mortem was shortlisted for an Arthur Ellis Award for best crime non-fiction. Born in Montreal, Wells has a master's degree in journalism from Carleton University in Ottawa. His true-crime research has taken him into forensic laboratories and shooting ranges, and to India, Ireland, France, San Francisco, New York City and western Canada. He has interviewed a half dozen convicted killers in prison. He lives in Hamilton, Ontario.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements.

Introduction.

1. A Burning Cross.

2. Atomic Dog.

3. Don Quixote.

4. Silent Scream.

5. Victim Soul.

6. Romanita.

7. Loretta.

8. Remembrance Day.

9. Sneaky Bastard.

10. "I'm Hemorrhaging Here".

11. Decidedly Distasteful.

12. Are you James Kopp?

13. On the Lam.

14. Wanted.

15. Tim Guttler.

16. A Moral Impossibility.

17. Partial Success.

18. Worried big-Time.

19. Sayonara.

20. St. Paul 4:18.

21. "A Pro-life Scalp".

22. The Usual Suspects.

23. Biblical Figures.

24. Grace and Ammunition.

25. Supernaturally Wicked.

26. A Complex Martydom.

27. Free Conscience.

28. The Maltese Falcon.

Epilogue.