A Need to Kill: The True-Crime Account of John Joubert, Nebraska's Most Notorious Serial Child Killer
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In the fall of a year that marked three decades since a terrifying stretch in Nebraska's history, a young Air Force airman carried out a killing spree that left two young boys dead and a whole community frightened. Former television journalist Mark Pettit returns to that case with a book that retells it from many angles, in the manner of a nonfiction novel.
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Drawing on a series of face-to-face interviews, Pettit lets the suspect describe his violent acts in his own words, including other crimes that sent investigators into a frenzy. The account also draws on the man's prison records and on drawings made on death row, which reveal the fantasies that filled his mind. Pettit also opens his own investigative files and shares letters the killer wrote to him from prison.
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