Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell

Winner of the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime. With a new introduction by bestselling true-crime author Ron Franscell. For twenty-five years, Dr. John Story was the most trusted man in Lovell, Wyoming. He was the town's family doctor, a pillar of the community, a man who delivered babies and treated children and cared for generations of the same families. He was also systematically raping his patients. His victims were mostly Mormon women, raised in a faith that emphasized submission, modesty, and deference to male authority. When Dr. Story subjected them to lengthy, painful pelvic examinations, sometimes lasting two to three hours, always without a nurse present, they assumed it was normal. They trusted him. Some didn't understand what had been done to them until their wedding nights. When a small group of women finally came forward, they expected justice. Instead they found a town that didn't want to believe them. The Medical Board of Wyoming was hostile to their claims. Their neighbors turned against them. The community fractured along religious lines, with Story's supporters calling it a Mormon conspiracy. Women who had already survived years of violation now faced public humiliation, disbelief, and the destruction of lifelong friendships. Jack Olsen, the New York Times bestselling author known as "the dean of true crime," spent years documenting every dimension of this story: the predator who hid behind a white coat and a community's trust, the courageous women who refused to stay silent, and a town that had to decide what it believed about itself. As Publishers Weekly wrote, Doc is "as much a searching sociological study as a true-crime narrative." It is a story about power, faith, and the devastating cost of speaking the truth when no one wants to hear it. Disturbing, compassionate, and impossible to forget, Doc stands as one of the most important true crime books ever written.
ASIN: 1508628602
VSKU: BVV.1508628602.G
Condition: Good
Author/Artist:Olsen, Jack|Franscell, Ron
Binding: Paperback
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