Thе Coopеrаnd#8217;s Wifе Is Missing: Thе Triаls of Bridgеt Clеаry
Publisher: Bаsic Books
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2001-08-21
List price: $18.95
"A lurid yarn, especially because it’s true."- Los Angeles Times. In 1895 twenty-six-year-old Bridget Cleary disappeared from her cottage in rural County Tipperary and remained missing for several days. At last her body was discovered, bent, broken, and badly burned in a shallow grave. Within a few days, her unimaginable story came to light: for almost a week before her death she had been confined, starved, threatened, physically and verbally abused, exorcised, and finally burned to death by her husband, father, aunt, cousins, and neighbors, who had collectively confused a simple flu ...
