Sunday, December 30, 2012

Worth More Dead by Ann Rule

Started: 11/17/12
Finished: 11/23/12
Year: 2005
Pages: 418
Grade: A
Genre: True Crime
Reason for reading: borrowed from mom
Blurb (from back cover): "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 truck 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 a 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 mysterous 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."
Opinion: Another great collection of true crime stories by Ann Rule. These cases are all about people that were worth more dead than alive and how people around them caused their deaths.

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