Object of the Study

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CHAPTER III METHODOLOGY

A. Object of the Study

James B Stewart is the author of Heart of a Soldier, the bestselling Blood Sport, and the blockbuster Den of Thieves. He is a former Page-One editor at the Wall Street Journal. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1988 for his reporting on the stock market crash and insider trading. He is regular contributor to Smart Money and The New York Worker. Blind Eye is the work analyzed in this topic. The author of Blind Eye was born in Quincy, Illinois. He lives in New York. He graduated from DePauw University and Harvard Law School. He is a member of the Bar of New York and Bloomberg Professor of Business and Economic Journalism at the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. His first wrote about Michael Swango in the November 24, 1997 of The New York Worker. His 1999 work, Blind Eye won the 2000 Edgar Award in the Best Fact Crime category. Blind Eye was non-fiction novel about a doctor who could be a serial killer. The murderer is a doctor, Michael Swango, who murdered more than sixty of his patients, tried to poison his friends in hospital and his lovely girls. He did not many ways to kill many people but he always did it with poison. He felt satisfied after doing it. FBI claimed that Michael Swango was responsible for sixty murders. No one could believe that the handsome young doctor might be a serial killer. Wherever he was hired, in Ohio, Illinois, New York, and South Dakota, he at first seemed like the ideal doctor. His patients began dying under suspicious circumstances. The workers in hospital and the police could not prove it even though he did murder with poison. A young and handsome doctor named Michael Swango was convicted of poisoning five co-workers in Illinois at 1985. Michael Swango was in prison to five years, but was paroled in 1987 and able to continue killing. Michael Swango practiced in the hospital of Zimbabwe Africa after there were no hospitals in the United States that would hired him. There were still victims in the hospital of Zimbabwe, Africa. He has been involved as a doctor during fifteen years.

B. Approach of the study