The first police officer to arrive at the scene of the
murder of Chip Northrup, age 87, and his wife Claudia Maupin, 76, called it in
as “a double homicide with one subject having been eviscerated.” Soon enough,
the authorities would learn that in fact both victims had been eviscerated, their
abdomens sliced open, and intestines pulled out. As the police report stated,
it was an act of “exceptional depravity.”
Two months later, in June 2013, a local teenager, Daniel Marsh,
confessed to the crime, telling authorities he stabbed the couple to death in
their bedroom just to see what it would “feel” like. . . .
That's the first few lines of my review of Exceptional Depravity: Dan Who Likes Dark and Double Murder in Davis, California, by veteran journalist Lloyd Billingsley, which appears in the February 2016 issue of The Florida Bar Journal. If you are so inclined, here's a link to the full review. But the book itself is an entertaining, fast-paced read and worth the time of any fan of the true crime genre.
Posts
