Author Event - Sgt. Rasul T. Freelain - When Lambs Become Wolves

Copies will be available for purchase in-store and during the event; book-signing to follow discussion. A compelling true crime memoir about a high-profile criminal case in Chicagoland and Indonesia that made headlines worldwide, this book offers a personal, heartfelt glimpse of child to parent violence and abuse (CPVA) and its capability for incredible destruction. With keen insight and empathy, the author, a police officer who tried to change the trajectory of domestic violence in a well-known family, tells the tragic story of the murder of Sheila von Wiese-Mack at the hands of her daughter, Heather Mack. "Like many people in Oak Park and elsewhere, I mourned the tragedy of Sheila’s death, and the pain it caused those who loved her. Then, as details of the circumstances of her death began to emerge, I had other emotions. I was angry at Heather – a troubled teen I knew well from more than two years of interactions, interrogations, and arrests – for seemingly masterminding the murder of her own mother. And I was profoundly shocked that Heather’s boyfriend Tommy Schaefer – a young man I had also known since his days as a middle school student in Oak Park – was the co-conspirator who purportedly dealt the fatal blows to Sheila. As I watched the media coverage of the tragedy unfold, I felt another emotion - disgust. I was disgusted by the way certain members of the media shallowly depicted both Sheila’s life and death—as if she were merely a bloodstained afterthought. Sheila was so much more than that. She was a loving mother, sister, and friend. To me she was, despite her flaws, a person I respected. She was also someone I had truly feared for and tried to guard and protect. And she is someone whose unwavering love for her child I will never forget." - Sgt. Freelain

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