{ "item_title" : "True Crime Case Histories - (Books 25, 26, & 27)", "item_author" : [" Jason Neal "], "item_description" : "36 Disturbing True Crime Stories of Murder and MayhemVolumes 25, 26, and 27 of the True Crime Case Histories SeriesThis series can be read in any orderThree books. Thirty-six cases. From a copper mug on a Utah nightstand to a flat on Hong Kong's Granville Road.A word of warning: the documentaries and news reports stop well short of what the case files contain. This series does not.A sampling of the thirty-six stories: Whips and Chains - Just after 3 a.m. on April 1, 1990, an Arizona trooper checked a tractor-trailer parked on Interstate 10 with no flares set out behind it and found a naked woman chained inside the sleeper, screaming. The driver, a long-haul trucker named Robert Ben Rhoades, calmly told him it was consensual. Two months earlier and more than a thousand miles east, fourteen-year-old Regina Kay Walters had run away from Pasadena, Texas, with her boyfriend, planning to hitchhike to Mexico.Are You With Me? - Kouri Richins and her husband toasted a house closing in their bedroom, and Eric drank his Moscow Mule in bed while she went to lie down with one of their sons. At 3:21 a.m. she called 911 to say Eric was cold, and the Utah stonemason, who didn't use drugs, had five times the lethal level of fentanyl in his blood. The following spring, she went on morning television with her children's book about grief.Hello Kitty Murder - In 1999, Fan Man-yee, a young Hong Kong mother, was taken to a flat on Granville Road over a debt that kept growing after she paid it. Triad member Chan Man-lok and the two men who called him Big Brother held her there for a month, burning the soles of her feet and rubbing chili into the wounds while ordering her to smile. A teenage girl sat in that flat through all of it.A Woman Scorned - Betty Broderick raised four children and sold Tupperware door to door while her husband, Dan, collected a medical degree, a Harvard law degree, and a celebrated San Diego law career. Then he hired a twenty-one-year-old assistant, Linda Kolkena, and the divorce became a four-year war in which Betty once drove her car into the front of his house. A month before Dan married Linda in 1989, Betty bought a .38 revolver, and Linda asked her groom to wear a bulletproof vest to the wedding.No Fire, No Food - In March 1994, Bob and Sally Bacon paid $13,900 to send their sixteen-year-old son, Aaron, into the Utah canyons with a wilderness program called North Star Expeditions. A nineteen-year-old counselor added a rule of his own: a boy who couldn't start a fire with a bow drill didn't get to cook. I feel like I'm losing control of my body, Aaron wrote in his journal.The Conduit - For more than twenty years, Ina and David Steiner ran EcommerceBytes, a news site covering eBay, Amazon, and Etsy, from their home in Natick, Massachusetts. In August 2019, the deliveries began: live cockroaches, a bloody pig mask from the horror movie Saw, and a book for David on surviving the death of a spouse. A few days later, a funeral wreath arrived at the door.Plus thirty more, among them a Michigan gas station clerk who vanished at closing time with $420 still in her purse, a Louisiana killer who kept getting through doors no one had forced, and a Craigslist ad for a caretaker on a 688-acre Ohio farm.Every case is reconstructed from court records, police files, forensic reports, and firsthand testimony. No sensationalism, no padding, no sanitizing.Gripping, closely sourced, and impossible to put down, this three-book collection is essential reading for fans of Ann Rule, Michelle McNamara, and Joe McGinniss.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers1.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/9/79/895/183/9798951836144_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "24.99", "online_price" : "24.99", "our_price" : "24.99", "club_price" : "24.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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