American Dreams: A Best-Selling Pint-Sized Psychopath

Rhoda Penmark is a serial killer who’s murdered three people and a dog. Rhoda is eight. In 1954, no one had met anyone like her, or the novel that contained her: ‘The Bad Seed.’

Nathaniel Rich

Published Jun. 29 2014 6:45AM EDT 

Nathaniel Rich

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