A Call for Justice: A New England Town's Fight To Keep A Stone Cold Killer In Jail

When the law wont work you have to work the law... The murderer stalking the quiet town of Warwick Rhode Island in the late summer of 1989 was an unrepentant psychopath--"a living breathing killing machine " in the words of a Boston Globe columnist. He butchered a family in their home--not far from the site where he had killed another woman two years earlier--just for the thrill it seemed of watching them die. When Craig Price was apprehended by police two weeks later he grinned cheerfully and confessed to the crimes. He was tried and convicted but sentenced to a mere five years imprisonment--the maximum penalty allowed by law. At the age of twenty-one he would be sent back to the streets and no one doubted he would kill again...unless drastic measures were taken. A Call for Justice is the gripping true story of how a cop willing to put his career on the line members of the victims families and other enraged citizens banded together and dedicated years of their lives to keeping a remorseless young killer behind bars. They would gain national media attention enlist the aid of Rhode Islands attorney general and even capture the ear of the President of the United States. Theirs is a cautionary tale of a flawed legal system ill-equipped to dispense true justice--and of a communitys determination to see justice done even if it meant twisting the law until it worked.When the law wont work you have to work the law... The murderer stalking the quiet town of Warwick Rhode Island in the late summer of 1989 was an unrepentant psychopath---"a living breathing killing machine " in the words of a Boston Globe columnist. He butchered a family in their home---not far from the site where he had killed another woman two years earlier---just for the thrill it seemed of watching them die. When Craig Price was apprehended by police two weeks later he grinned cheerfully and confessed to the crimes. He was tried and convicted but sentenced to a mere five years imprisonment---the maximum penalty allowed by law. At the age of twenty-one he would be sent back to the streets and no one doubted he would kill again...unless drastic measures were taken. When the law wont work you have to work the law... The murderer stalking the quiet town of Warwick Rhode Island in the late summer of 1989 was an unrepentant psychopath---"a living breathing killing machine " in the words of a Boston Globe columnist. He butchered a family in their home---not far from the site where he had killed another woman two years earlier---just for the thrill it seemed of watching them die. When Craig Price was apprehended by police two weeks later he grinned cheerfully and confessed to the crimes. He was tried and convicted but sentenced to a mere five years imprisonment---the maximum penalty allowed by law. At the age of twenty-one he would be sent back to the streets and no one doubted he would kill again...unless drastic measures were taken. A CALL FOR JUSTICE is the gripping true story of how a cop willing to put his career on the line members of the victims families and other enraged citizens banded together and dedicated years of their lives to keeping a remorseless young killer behind bars. They would gain national media attention enlist the aid of Rhode Islands attorney general and even capture the ear of the President of the United States. Theirs is a cautionary tale of a flawed legal system ill-equipped to dispense true justice---and of a communitys determination to see justice done even if it meant twisting the law until it worked.