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Zusatztext Go deep inside the darkest crimes and twisted minds of the most baffling killers and schemers -- with this collection of chilling cases from Ann Rule! "America's best true-crime writer" -- Kirkus Reviews Informationen zum Autor Ann Rule Klappentext In this white-knuckled entry in Ann Rule’s Crime Files, the #1 New York Times bestselling author presents the true story of a man who betrayed his family with heinous crimes and other tales of passion and greed. Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife’s love—it wasn’t supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. It would be nearly twenty years before he admitted to hiring someone to kill his estranged wife, but the alleged confession was as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. The “prolific and talented” ( Publishers Weekly ) Ann Rule dives into this shocking true crime with her signature compassion and insight. She reveals how Pitre managed to avoid conviction and the two generations of detectives who worked doggedly for justice. Worth More Dead also features several more nonfiction tales from one of the world’s “top-notch true crime writers” ( Booklist ). Zusammenfassung Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife! the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him? Because they were... Worth More Dead A cold case reopened -- and solved -- with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files. Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love -- it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later! he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988! though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually! he was charged with first-degree murder in the long-unsolved death of Cheryl Pitre! after a mysterious witness betrayed Pitre to save his own skin. Tracing back the dark and bloody path of Pitre's life! two generations of detectives found a chain of brutal and terrifying crimes by a man who manipulated the courts and prisons to walk free. ...
