The Brothers Krimm: The Bank Robber and the Hero

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Synopsis
On September 14, 2009, a serial bank bandit scores one of his biggest hauls ever in Williston, N. D. Jimmy Krimm has been robbing banks for most of his adult life, but the biggest crime he ever committed took place before he left his mother's Michigan home decades earlier. When police deliver the news that her oldest son is dead, Charlene Krimm is left pining for any children he may have fathered, and with the task of breaking the news to her younger son, Rob -- Jimmy's first victim. "The Brothers Krimm" examines the way childhood sexual abuse forms two men --turning one into a predator -- and the other into the kind of hero whose triumph is found in his will to rise above the past. In the wake of the events of September 14, 2009, a small town reporter is compelled to dig deeper into the mystery of Jimmy Krimm. Driven by the desire to help his family gain closure, Cecile Wehrman sets out to follow the trail of a serial bank robber -- a trail that leads, inexplicably, to her own doorstep - to the abuse in her own past, and to the very real possibility she could have been Jimmy's next victim. From Chapter 1: "It's a story that will test all of my skills as a researcher. I will have to examine my ethics as a journalist. I will have to open old wounds, personal wounds. My faith will be shaken. Inconsequential things, something as simple as finding a penny, will take on new meaning. . . And it won't be until many months into it that my research will uncover an inexplicable connection to this robber -- this man who terrorized my neighborhood. It is a piece of evidence so startling it will literally knock me to the ground. "With the cooperation of the Krimm family, through prison documents, police records and even Jimmy's own words and photos from the road during his final bank robbing spree, Wehrman chronicles the exploits of a modern day Jesse James - dispelling forever the notion of the dashing bank bandit and replacing it with the portrait of a homeless wanderer who took what he needed, no matter who it hurt.
Copyright:
2011

Book Details

Book Quality:
Excellent
Book Size:
346 Pages
ISBN-13:
9781456458454
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Cecile Wehrman
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Psychology
Submitted By:
Duane Iverson
Proofread By:
Jim Shaffer
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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