Bosket

This being the case, Bosket is only a monster created by the system he now haunts.

From Out of the South 1995

At one point, one of their owners was a man named Bosket, which is where they got their surname from, from the white slave owner.

All God's Children: The Bosket Family and the American Tradition of Violence 1996

Bosket was a charming but violent child who was repeatedly placed in multiple treatment facilities in New York where he received therapy from some highly qualified mental health professionals in the mid-1970s.

Growing Up Pawel, Michael A. 1999

[1] Contrast it, for example, with the Willie Bosket story meticulously reconstructed by Fox Butterfield in All God's Children: The Bosket Family and America's Tradition of Violence (Knopf, 1995).

Growing Up Pawel, Michael A. 1999

Willie Bosket opened a door on a besetting national problem.

From Out of the South 1995

To this day, the only regret Bosket has is not having killed prison guard Earl

From Out of the South 1995

His legs bound by heavy shackles that clattered gloomily across the courtroom floor, his arms handcuffed in front of him, the handcuffs chained to his waist, a further chain connecting these chains to his shackles, Bosket read from the same letter.

From Out of the South 1995

Ordinary people -- storekeepers, subway drunks, lonely women -- were the Boskets 'victims, and it is a problem of All God's Children that they play only bit parts on the garish Bosket stage.

From Out of the South 1995

Willie Bosket has been incarcerated since he was nine years old and was raised by his surrogate mother, the criminal justice system ....

From Out of the South 1995

Willie Bosket, who had murdered two men and claimed to have committed 2,000 crimes by age fifteen, wrote that in a letter to the deputy superintendent of

From Out of the South 1995