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Absolute Madness tells the disturbing true Story of Joseph Christopher, a white serial killer

who targeted black males and struck fear into the residents of Buffalo and New York

City in the 1980s.

Dubbed both the 22 caliber killer and the Midtown Slasher, Christopher allegedly claimed

18 victims during a savage four-month spree across the state.

The investigation, aided by famed FBI profiler John Douglas, drew national attention in

biting criticism from Jesse Jackson and other civil rights leaders.

The killer, when it last, he was unmasked, seemed an unlikely candidate to have held New

York in a grip of terror.

His capture was neither the end of the story nor the end of the racial strife, which flared

a new during circuitous prosecutions and judicial rulings that prompted cries of a double

standard in the judicial system.

With a wrenching true crime story and an incisive portrait of dangerously discordant race relations

in America, Absolute Madness also chronicles the alone vulnerable man.

Man's tragic descent into madness and the failure of the American mental health system

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