Smoke, Mirrors, and Murder: And Other True Cases (Volume 12) (Ann Rule's Crime Files)

by Ann Rule (Author)

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  Illustrated
  2008

  $4.98

  An ideal family is targeted for death by the least likely enemy, who plotted their demise from behind bars.... A sexual predator hides behind multiple fake identities, eluding police for years while his past victims live in fear that he will hunt them down.... A modest preacher's wife confesses to shooting her husband after an argument -- but there's more to her shattering story than meets the eye. These and other true cases are analyzed with stunning clarity in a page-turning collection you won't be able to put down.
  
  Included in this volume are stories of a victim burned beyond recognition - spontaneous human combustion? - impossible - and yet no one else seemed to enter or exit; a man who was a woman who was a man, whose con games in a small community led to murder; a counterfeit priest who wasn't a priest at all; a lifetime rapist; and the strangest case ever to hit Montana.