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  • The Demon Next Door

  • By: Bryan Burrough
  • Narrated by: Steve White
  • Length: 2 hrs and 45 mins
  • 4.0 out of 5 stars (30,919 ratings)

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The Demon Next Door

By: Bryan Burrough
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Publisher's summary

Best-selling author Bryan Burrough (Barbarians at the Gate, Public Enemies, Big Rich) recently made a shocking discovery: The small town of Temple, Texas, where he had grown up, had harbored a dark secret. One of his high school classmates, Danny Corwin, was a vicious serial killer who had raped and mutilated six women, murdering three of them. Yet the town had denied all early signs of the radical evil that was growing within Corwin. What had led the local media to ignore his early rapes? Why had the local Presbyterian Church tried to shield him from prison? Why had local law enforcement been unable to solve and prosecute his murders as they continued?

Burrough is widely admired as a master storyteller, and this chilling tale raises important questions of whether serial killers can be recognized before they kill or rehabilitated after they do. It is also a story of Texas politics and power that led the good citizens of the town of Temple to enable a demon who was their worst nightmare.

This title contains mature themes, including physical and sexual violence, that some listeners may find unsettling.

©2019 Bryan Burrough (P)2019 Audible Originals, LLC.

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  • The Demon Next Door
  • Is rehabilitation possible for a violent psychopath?
  • The Demon Next Door
  • "They were amazing with children."
  • The Demon Next Door
  • Darker stories about Danny’s childhood

About the Author

Bryan Burrough is a longtime special correspondent at Vanity Fair and the author of six books, including Days of Rage, The Big Rich, Public Enemies, and (with John Helyar) Barbarians at the Gate. He lives in Austin, Texas, where he is currently researching his latest book, a narrative history of Old West gunfighters.

About the Performer

Steve White has spent most of his life behind a microphone. As a kid, he realized the power of the spoken word, hanging out with his dad while the pair talked to people around the world via ham radio. Later, Steve put that penchant for communication into practice and ventured into radio and TV. He worked as a journalist for television stations in North Carolina before transitioning to voiceover in 2015. He quickly discovered a love for storytelling and narrating audiobooks. Since then, Steve has produced more than 50 audiobooks in a variety of genres. Whether exploring 1940s Florida behind the eyes of a precocious 6-year-old in Judith Richards’ award-winning Summer Lightning, discovering the origins of baseball on the front lines of the Civil War in Jeff McArthur’s The American Game, or exploring the murkiness of the human psyche in true crime stories such as Ryan Green’s You Think You Know Me, Steve loves delving into a range of characters. He lives in North Carolina with his wife and two sons.