Grady Stiles Jr: The Life, Murder Conviction and Killing of Lobster Boy

"Good evening, ladies and gentlemen, I am the Lobster Boy." That was Grady Stiles Jr's opening line, delivered thousands of times over a career that spanned decades of American carnival midways. Audiences came to gawk at his hands and feet, fused by a rare genetic condition into claw-like shapes. What they didn't see, until it became impossible to ignore, was that Stiles was also a violent, controlling alcoholic who shot a man dead the night before his daughter's wedding, walked away with...