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Scout camp : sex, death, and secret societies inside the Boy Scouts of America / James Renner.

Summary:
"In this timely and deeply personal true crime memoir, acclaimed journalist, author, creator of the True Crime This Week podcast, and former Boy Scout James Renner, explores the dark side of an American institution, its pervasive culture of sexual abuse, and the traumatic and deadly repercussions of its long-buried secrets. In the summer of 1995, at the largest Boy Scout camp in Ohio, a night of sexual violence ended with one counselor dead and another hospitalized. The death was ruled 'accidental.' It would not be the last death associated with Seven Ranges Reservation. James Renner, too, was a counselor at Seven Ranges that year. He was always sure there must be more to the story of Mike Klingler's death, because Renner also knew firsthand that the 900-acre camp was not the safe getaway it was portrayed to be. On Friday nights the boys were ushered into the woods for a frightening ceremony in which they learned the rules for becoming good young men and, above all, that keeping secrets was a scout's duty. No matter how dark the secrets were"-- Publisher description.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780806543321
  • ISBN: 0806543329
  • Physical Description: vii, 263 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
  • Publisher: New York : Citadel Press, 2025.
Subject: Renner, James, 1978- > Biography.
Boy Scouts of America.
Adult child sexual abuse victims > Biography.
Child sexual abuse by Scout leaders > Biography.
Secret societies.
Child sexual abuse by Scout leaders.
Columbiana County (Ohio)
Genre: True crime stories.
Autobiographies.

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  • 0 of 1 copy available at Lehigh Valley Library System.

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Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Bethlehem Main Library 364.153 (Text) 33062009979379 New Adult Nonfiction Checked Out 04/14/2025


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