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The Hype Around "Father and Son, A True Crime Memoir"

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Joshua Powell
Jun 30, 2025
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"Father and Son" reveals the extraordinary double life of my father, a gifted portrait painter harboring a violent past. In 1947, Jacob Kohn, an elderly antique dealer in Boston's Back Bay, was brutally murdered with a claw hammer. The killer left behind just one clue—a set of keys—eventually leading police to my father, who had already fled.

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