Steve Jackson
Smooth Talker
Trail of Death
Buch
One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani's Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her bar-raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. She'd last been seen alive the night before talking to a drifter who sat at the end of the bar, playing cards and flirting with her. But the stranger, along with Anita's Cadillac, had disappeared. Unable to locate a suspect, police investigators sadly watched the case grow cold over the years.Meanwhile a month after Anita's murder, young Michele Wallace, was driving down a road in the mountains near Crested Butte, Colorado, when she gave two stranded…
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One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani's Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her bar-raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. She'd last been seen alive the night before talking to a drifter who sat at the end of the bar, playing cards and flirting with her. But the stranger, along with Anita's Cadillac, had disappeared. Unable to locate a suspect, police investigators sadly watched the case grow cold over the years.Meanwhile a month after Anita's murder, young Michele Wallace, was driving down a road in the mountains near Crested Butte, Colorado, when she gave two stranded motorists, Chuck Matthews and a man named Roy, a ride. Dropping Matthews off at a bar in Gunnison, she agreed to take Roy to his truck. She was never seen alive again, nor could a massive search of the mountains locate her remains. The trail leading to her killer also ran into deadends.Fourteen years later, Charlotte Sauerwin, engaged to be married, met a smooth-talking man at a Laundromat in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The next evening, her body was found in the woods; she'd been raped, tortured, and her throat slashed. The police suspected her fiance, Vince LeJeune, though he proclaimed his innocence to anyone who would listen. Meanwhile, the man from the Laundromat couldn't be located.The three murders would remain unsolved, eating at the hearts, minds and lives of the women's families, friends and communities. Then in the early 1990s, a rookie Gunnison County sheriff's investigator named Kathy Young began looking into the Wallace case and identified a suspect named Roy Melanson, a serial rapist from Texas. SMOOTH TALKER is the story of Melanson, his depredations, and the intrepid police work that went into bringing him to justice.I originally wrote about the Michele Wallace case in 2002 as part of my book NO STONE UNTURNED: The True Story of the World's Premier Forensic Investigators. The book detailed the history and best cases of NecroSearch International, a renowned group of scientists and law enforcement investigators who pool their knowledge and experience to locate the clandestine graves and remains of murder victims. Their first real success was locating the remains of Michele Wallace in 1994. However, at the time the book came out, no one knew about the true extent of Roy Melanson's horrific rampage or the connection between the Wallace case and the murders of Andrews and Sauerwin. It's all pieced together in SMOOTH TALKER: Trail of Death, in which the readers get two fascinating cold case murder investigations in a story filled with brutality, grief, forensic science at its finest, and exemplary police work.
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-942266-43-3
- EAN: 9781942266433
- Produktnummer: 19836749
- Verlag: WildBlue Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
- Seitenangabe: 188 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.0 cm 245 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 245
Über den Autor
New York Times bestselling author and award-winning journalist Steve Jackson has written eleven non-fiction books in true crime, history and biography genres; he has also written sixteen crime fiction thrillers for the long-running and NYTimes bestselling Butch Karp Series in collaboration with former New York assistant district attorney Robert K. Tanenbaum.Steve's last book, ALL SECURE: A Special Operations Soldier's Fight To Survive On The Battlefield And The Homefront (Center Stree) was released November 2019. He is currently working on two more non-fiction books, one about the murder of a United Mineworkers union official and his family, COAL COUNTRY KILLING, and FINDING ANASTASIA, one man's quest to answer the question of what happened to the Romanov royal family once and for all.He is also the co-owner of indie publisher WildBlue Press (wildbluepress.com)
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