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    Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
    Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
    Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite
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    Golden Boy: A Murder Among the Manhattan Elite

    Written by John Glatt

    Narrated by Shaun Grindell

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    By all accounts, Thomas Gilbert Jr. led a charmed life. The son of a wealthy hedge fund manager and a financier, he grew up surrounded by a loving family and all the luxury an Upper East Side childhood could provide: education at the elite Buckley School and Deerfield Academy, summers in a sprawling seaside mansion in the Hamptons. He was strikingly handsome, moving with ease through glittering social circles and following in his father's footsteps to Princeton. His friends saw him as a leader; his parents adored him.

    But Tommy always felt different, and the cracks in his façade began to show. What started as quiet exhaustion turned into warning signs of OCD, increasing paranoia, and-most troubling-an indescribable, inexplicable hatred of his father. As his parents begged him to seek psychiatric help, Tommy pushed back by self-medicating with drugs and escalating violence. When a fire destroyed his recently-estranged best friend's Hamptons home, Tommy was the prime suspect-but he was never charged. Just months later, he arrived at his parents' apartment, calmly asked his mother to leave, and shot his father point-blank in the head.

    With exclusive access to sources close to Tommy, including his own mother, author John Glatt constructs the agonizing spiral of mental illness that led Thomas Gilbert Jr. to the ultimate unspeakable act.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJul 20, 2021
    ISBN9781977346285
    Author

    John Glatt

    English-born JOHN GLATT is the author of more than thirty books including The Lost Girls and My Sweet Angel, and has over thirty years of experience as an investigative journalist in England and America. He has appeared on television and radio programs all over the world, including Dateline NBC, Fox News, ABC’s 20/20, BBC World News, and A&E Biography.

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    • 4/5
      Very well researched. Narrator, although performs very well in other books. Wasn’t the best fit for this story in particular.

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    • 5/5
      This young man and his family were more concerned with how they looked to others than insisting their son be admitted to hospital for treatment for his mental health. He wanted to appear normal however he was a pot waiting to boil over.
      His behaviour was escalating and as with many people who have MH issues the medications have unwelcome side effects and so because they can’t make sensible decisions they stop taking their medications and dangerously self medicate with street drugs.
      Be ashamed America no one expects this man to get a cookie but putting the mentally ill in prison is abhorrent!
      He was clearly not fit to stand trial and all the press making him a rich brat who shot his Dad over 100 dollars was so prejudicial.
      He needs treatment not prison!