Answer to Hell

It was April 15, 1988, when a Santa Barbara radio station reported the discovery of human remains in a campfire pit. The Sheriff's Department suspected foul play. Four hours later there came a second report: it was suicide. ANSWER TO HELL is an unusual work which explores the knotted life of Paul Sgroi, the man who had ingeniously and brutally murdered himself two days earlier. Paul's forty years were a caricature of human delight and despair. Here was a man who lifted himself from poverty ...