"An explosive and historic book of true crime and an emotionally powerful and revelatory memoir of a man whose ten-year search for his biological father leads to a chilling discovery: His father is one of the most notorious--and still at large--serial killers in America. Soon after his birth mother contacted him for the first time at the age of thirty-nine, adoptee Gary L. Stewart decided to search for his biological father. It was a quest that would...

Olivia Taylor-Jones is the daughter of a prominent Chicago family- or so she thought. Ivy League educated, with a handsome, politically ambitious fiance, Olivia is shattered when she learns that she's adopted. Her real parents? Todd and Pamela Larsen, notorious serial killers serving life sentences. Overwhelmed by a maelstrom of unwanted publicity, Olivia flees to home to pursue the truth about her birth parents.

"The shocking truth about postwar adoption in America, told through the bittersweet story of one teenager, the son she was forced to relinquish, and their search to find each other-- As Baby Boomers became teenagers in 1960s America, women were encouraged to stay home and raise large families, but sex and childbirth were taboo subjects. Premarital sex was common, but birth control was hard to get and abortion was illegal. In 1961, sixteen-year-old...