Paperback: The offenses dated from 1967 to 1983 and the victims' ages ranged from fifteen to sixty-eight.
For twenty-five years since he established his medical practice 1958, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town - Lovell - had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him.
Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized only on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr Story's office.
In riveting detail, veteran crime writer Jack Olsen tells the searing story of a small group of courageous women who decided to bring the doctor to justice and unearthed a legacy of pain and anger that would divide their families, their neighbours and an entire town.
About the author: Jack Olsen (1925-2002) is the author of thirty-three books published in fifteen countries and eleven languages, including the highly acclaimed Predator: Rape, Madness and Injustice in Seattle (1991) which won the American Mystery Award for Best True Crime and his most notable work, "Son": A Psychopath and His Victims (1983), which won a Special Edgar from the Mystery Writers of America. Most of Olsen's books investigated the life histories of violent career criminals including studies of serial rapists.
A former bureau chief for Time, Olsen has won the National Headliners Award, citations for excellence from Indiana and Columbia universities, the Washington State Governor's Award, the Scripps-Howard Award, among others, and was listed in Who's Who in America since 1968 and in Who's Who in the World since 1967. He was named to the Mystery Writers of America's fact-crime committee in 1996 and appointed chair in 1997.
The Philadelphia Inquirer described him as "an American treasure", the Washington Post described him as "the dean of true crime authors" and the New York Daily News lauded him as "the master of true crime". His studies of crime are required reading in university criminology courses and have been cited in the New York Times Notable Books of the Year. In a page-one review, the Times described his work as "a genuine contribution to criminology and journalism alike".
A nationally respected expert on the psychology of criminals, Olsen appeared on Good Morning America, Sally Jessy Raphael, Donahue, Geraldo, Larry King Live, and other network interview shows. He was the father of eight, a native of Philadelphia, a fishing fanatic and lived on an island in Puget Sound, Washington, where he passed away at the age of seventy-seven on 16 July 2002.
"Doc": The Rape of the Town of Lovell (1989) was awarded the 1991 Edgar for Best Fact Crime.
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