The Trials of Christian Longo

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Bibliography

The Oregonian — "Hundreds go to service in Michigan for slain family" January 6, 2002

FBI Press Release —  January 11, 2002

The Oregonian — "The Longo killings: A trail of crimes" January 12, 2002

CBS Worldwide, Inc.  — "FBI Arrests Top Murder Suspect"Jan. 14, 2002

The Oregonian — "Longo Captured in Mexico" January 15, 2002

The Oregonian — "Tourists recall Longo's boasts, carefree ways" January 23, 2002

Michigan Free Press— "Charmer becomes murder defendant" January 26, 2002

The Oregonian — "Court documents in Longo case detail killings, disposal of bodies" March 23, 2002

Willamette Week — "The Life and Crimes of Christian Longo" August 14, 2002

Willamette Week — "The Life and Crimes of Christian Longo" August 21, 2002

The Oregonian — "Longo recalls his family's final days in interview" December 3, 2002

The Register—Guard — "Cast out: Religious shunning provides an unusual background in the Longo and Bryant slayings" March 2, 2003

Associated Press — "Judge grants Longo one—week delay" March 13, 2003

The Oregonian — "Longo says that pride kept him from asking for help" March 27, 2003

The Oregonian — "Longo says wife was first to kill" April 2, 2003

The Oregonian — "Longo condemned to die" April 17, 2003

Newstar.com — "Family murder: It happens in the nicest homes" May 18, 2003

Ann Arbor News — "Christian Longo's Timeline" June 12, 2005

"The Journalist and the Murderer," Michael Finkel, Vanity Fair, June, 2005

CrimeLibrary.com — "Fathers Who Kill" by Katherine Ramsland

True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa by Michael Finkel — Harper Collins, 2005

The Psychopathic Mind and Violent Attachments by J. Reid Meloy — Jason Aronson, Inc., 1992

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1. Two Tragic Deaths
2. The Boy, the Family, the Religion
3. The Love Story
4. This is where the trouble began.
5. The Trouble Begins
6. Drowning in Debt
7. On the Run
8. Desperation Takes Hold
9. The Plan
10. Bankrupt
11. The Unthinkable
12. Escape
13. New Persona
14. Capture
15. The Trial
16. Bizarre Testimony
17. The Verdict
18. Bibliography