Deacon of Death by Fred Rosen

Deacon of Death by Fred Rosen

Baptist deacon, family man, pillar of his Florida community . . . and serial killer of prostitutes: chilling true crime from the author of Lobster Boy.

By day, Sam Smithers was the deacon of his Baptist church in Plant City, Florida, a respected neighbor to many, and a devoted husband and father. But after the sun set, he became something else: a violent attacker--and killer--of prostitutes.

Smithers's twisted double life came to light when a local woman who had hired him to take care of her property found him in her garage, cleaning an ax--and then discovered a puddle of blood. Through exclusive interviews with Smithers's wife, who described her spouse as nothing but a doting husband and father, author Fred Rosen learned why this man of God, raised in an intensely religious Tennessee home, was the last person anyone would suspect of committing these savage crimes. Rosen reveals the details behind the deaths of Christy Cowan and Denise Roach after Smithers picked them up in Tampa--and the fate of a man who seemed holier than thou, but was actually guilty as sin.

Fred Rosen was born 1926 in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He and his wife, Gertrude, are the parents of a son, Robert, who has been diagnosed as having Down's Syndrome. Fred has been active in helping persons with disabilities, serving on various boards and committees for over thirty years. As a Board Member and as Chairman of the Legal Guardianship Committee of the Missouri Association for Retarded Citizens. As a Board Member and on the Recreation Committee of the St. Louis Association for Retarded Citizens for twenty-seven years. As a Board Member of the Kirkwood Disabled Advisory and Awareness Commission, City of Kirkwood, Missouri, from 1984 to 1991. As an Assistant Scoutmaster for a troop of mentally retarded Boy Scouts, St. Louis Special School District. After retiring from the wholesale shoe business in 1991, Fred decided to become a travel agent with the goal of developing a travel program for persons with disabilities. He earned an Associate Degree in Tourism from Forest Park Community College in 1993 and worked with Hausler Travel Associates as a travel consultant before starting his own travel consulting company, Accessible Travel, In January, 1998 Fred was a contributing editor for The Independence, Saint Charles, Missouri, a newspaper for persons with a disability, and contributed articles to The Montage, the campus newspaper of Meramec Community College. Fred also wrote HOW TO TRAVEL - A Guidebook for Persons with a Disability dealing primarily with travel within the United States.

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ISBN 13	9780786010943
ISBN 10	0786010940
Titel	Deacon of Death
Autor	Fred Rosen
Buchzustand	Nicht verfügbar
Bindungsart	Paperback
Verlag	Kensington Publishing
Erscheinungsjahr	2000-04-01
Seitenanzahl	304
Hinweis auf dem Einband	Die Abbildung des Buches dient nur Illustrationszwecken, die tatsächliche Bindung, das Cover und die Auflage können sich davon unterscheiden.