Worth More Dead and Other True Cases by Rule Ann

Worth More Dead and Other True Cases by Rule Ann

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?

Because they were.

Worth More Dead

A cold case reopened -- and solved -- with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files.

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 trunk 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 as 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 mysterious 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.

Rule, Ann: - Ann Rule is the author of thirty-four previous New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. A former Seattle police officer, she knows the crime scene firsthand. She is a certified instructor for police training seminars and lectures to law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and forensic organizations, including the FBI and the American Academy of Forensic Sciences. For more than three decades, she has been a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She has testified before US Senate Judiciary subcommittees on serial murder and victims' rights, and was a civilian adviser to ViCAP (Violent Criminal Apprehension Program). A graduate of the University of Washington, she holds a PhD in Humane Letters from Willamette University. She lives near Seattle and can be contacted through her Web page at www.authorannrule.com, on Facebook, and by email at AnnieR37@aol.com.

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ISBN 13	9780739462126
ISBN 10	0739462121
Title	Worth More Dead and Other True Cases
Author	Ann Rule
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Pocket Books, New York
Year published	2005-01-01
Number of pages	0
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