Murder in the Family by Burl Barer
On March 15, 1987, police in Anchorage, Alaska, arrived at a horrific scene of carnage. In a modest downtown apartment, they found Nancy Newman's brutally beaten corpse sprawled across her bed. In other rooms were the bodies of her eight-year-old daughter, Melissa, and her three-year-old, Angie, whose throat was slit from ear to ear. Both Nancy and Melissa had been sexually assaulted.After an intense investigation, the police narrowed the principal suspect down to twenty-three-year-old Kirby Anthoney, a troubled drifter who had turned to his uncle, Nancy's husband John, for help and a place to stay. Little did John know that the nephew he took in was a murderous sociopath capable of slaughtering his beloved family.This true story, shocking and tragic, stunned Anchorage's residents and motivated the Major Crimes Unit of the Anchorage Police Department to do everything right in their investigation. Feeling the heat as the police built their case, Kirby bolted for the Canadian border. But the cops were on to him. First they hunted him down; then the cops and a tenacious prosecutor began their long, bitter battle to convict him against an equally tough defense lawyer, as well as the egomaniacal defendant himself.This shocking tale reached its climax in a controversial trial where, for the first time, an FBI profiler was allowed to testify and the controversial pre-DNA science of allotyping was presented to a jury. But justice would not be served until after the psychopathic Kirby Anthoney took the stand in his own defense--and showed the world the monster he truly was.Burl Barer is a two-time Anthony Award contender and Edgar Award winner with vast experience in media, advertising, marketing, and public relations. Barer's career has been featured in The Hollywood Reporter, London Sunday Telegraph, New York Times, USA Today, Variety, Broadcasting, Electronic Media, and ABC's Good Morning America for his unique contributions to radio, television, and print media. Burl Barer, considered as one of America's best investigative journalists, is a frequent commenter on a variety of television shows broadcast throughout the world, including Deadly Sins, Deadly Women, Motives and Murders Snapped Scorned, Beyond Mansion Walls, Epic Mysteries, and Hart Fisher's AMERICAN HORRORS channel via Filmon.TV Burl Barer broadcasts the award-winning Internet radio show TRUE CRIME UNCENSORED alongside Barer is a regular contributor to Serial Killer Quarterly, the respected journal edited by Lee Mellor, in addition to non-fiction/true crime best sellers. Barer also creates new adventures in Leslie Charteris' THE SAINT series, as well as the Jeff Reynolds private eye series.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780786011353 |
| ISBN 10 | 0786011351 |
| Title | Murder in the Family |
| Author | Burl Barer |
| Series | Pinnacle True Crime |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Kensington Publishing |
| Year published | 2000-08-01 |
| Number of pages | 320 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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