The Good Wife by Clint Richmond

The Good Wife by Clint Richmond

Roger and Penny Scaggs seemed a poster couple for family values. Evangelical Christians living in booming Austin, Texas, in the mid-1990s, they were respected leaders in their church and community. As Roger diligently worked his way up the high-tech corporate ladder, Penny kept a pristine home and coached similarly devout young women on how to be perfect wives. But on a windy March evening, this godly woman met the devil head-on. And when the police discovered her lifeless body--repeatedly bludgeoned with a lead pipe, then mutilated with a knife from her own spotless kitchen--they were shocked by the rage and savagery behind her slaying.

The Good Wife is a startling true story of greed, hatred, betrayal, and an unimaginable murder--a tale of the dark decay that can be hidden behind a facade of saintliness when a marriage seemingly made in heaven descends into hell.

Clint Richmond's tenth nonfiction book, The Murder of Penny Scaggs and the Trial of her Husband, Roger, is about the murder of Penny Scaggs and the prosecution of her husband, Roger. His Selena from 1995! Red Star Rogue, his 2005 collaboration, was also a New York Times bestseller. Richmond, a former news reporter for the Dallas Times Herald, covered President John F. Kennedy's assassination. The assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the trial of Jack Ruby for the assassination of suspected assassin Lee Harvey Oswald.

For several years, he was assigned to federal and state courts as well as law enforcement beats in Dallas. Later, as a freelance journalist, he covered the Rocky Mountain and West Coast regions for publications such as People magazine and contributed to Time, Newsweek, and a variety of other publications. In Austin, Texas, the author lives with his wife, who is also a freelance writer.