Overkill: True Crime Box Set

149 Pages·2014·1.21 MB·English

by  Olsen

OVERKILL
Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris
Copyright 2014 by Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris
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Original cover photography: Her Lovers Wife: Helmuts Guigo, The Deadly Daughter-In-Law: Ulrich Joho
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Map by Brad Arnesen
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Published by Notorious USA
Table of Contents
OVERKILL
About the Authors
Introduction
HER LOVER’S WIFE
The Triumvirate: Boulder, Littleton and Aurora
Mountains of Tragedy
Her Lover’s Wife
The Amish Serial Killer
The Son Who Blew Up The Night
Confessions of a Bitch on Wheels
THE DEADLY DAUGHTER-IN-LAW
The Fourth Wife
Freed—But Are They Innocent?
Afterword
The Vicious Vixen
Afterword
The Deadly Daughter-in-Law
The Football Booster
Afterword
FUNDAMENTAL LOVE
Baby Killer
Afterword
Deadly Distraction
The Lego Murder
Fundamental Love
Killed While She Slept
Afterword
“If I Die, It May Not Be an Accident”
Afterword
About the Authors
Gregg Olsen is the New York Times bestselling author of twenty books, both
true crime and fiction, including Shocking True Story, Fear Collector, A Twisted
Faith, Starvation Heights, and If Loving You Is Wrong.
Rebecca Morris is the author of Ted and Ann – The Mystery of a Missing Child
and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy, and Bad Apples – Inside the Teacher/Student Sex
Scandal Epidemic.
Together they are the authors of If I Can’t Have You – Susan Powell, Her
Mysterious Disappearance and the Murder of Her Children, and the New York
Times bestselling Bodies of Evidence, the first book in the Notorious USA series.
PRAISE FOR
If I Can’t Have You
“Compelling,” “haunting”
—The Salt Lake Tribune
“A powerful narrative of one family’s tragedy.”
—Publishers Weekly
“…absorbing and deeply researched…”
—The Seattle Times
Introduction
By Gregg Olsen and Rebecca Morris
WE’VE WRITTEN ABOUT DOZENS OF CRIMES in our Notorious USA
series. We’ve looked at the worst of the worst—husbands who killed their wives;
women who killed their boyfriends; children who died because they became
inconvenient to a parent’s lifestyle; boys who took a weapon to school; love
triangles that have turned ugly. How could they not?
What have we learned? Mental illness is often a factor, but most people
who commit horrific acts do so because of jealousy or greed. It’s alarming how
many kill in order to collect on life insurance—even on their children.
Overkill is a compilation of Notorious Colorado, Arizona and Utah.
Colorado’s edition includes three of the country’s most infamous crimes
which all occurred in the same area of Colorado: the murder of JonBenet
Ramsey, the Columbine school shooting, and the Aurora movie theater massacre.
We also report on an Amish serial killer, a fatal attraction that led to a murder,
and on a minister’s wife whose illicit passion drove her to murder.
In Arizona’s, we update several cases, including: a man suspected of
marrying vulnerable women, then killing them; two infamous Arizona killers
freed after decades in prison; television’s “it girl” Jodi Arias; a woman who was
her mother-in-law’s worst nightmare; and a football mom who got a little too
cozy with members of her son’s high school team.
And in Utah’s edition, we report on one of the most sensational and
heartbreaking crimes we’ve come across—Megan Huntsman, the Utah mother
who hid seven dead infants in a garage; a cold case that was finally solved by a
child’s Lego; the rogue Fundamentalist Mormon who thought it was his right to
marry and rape young girls; the sad case of children dying in hot cars; the
husband who ended years of lying with murder; and an update on the
disappearance of Susan Cox Powell, the case we write about in our book If I
Can’t Have You.
Why are we fascinated and repelled by crime? To paraphrase the Chinese
philosopher Xun Zi, every one of us is born with feelings of envy and hate. If we
give in to them, we’re led to violence and crime. The rest of us struggle and
might come close to that proverbial line in the sand, but we don’t cross it. But
we’re disgusted—and a little intrigued—by those who do.
If there’s a notorious case you’d like us to write about—anywhere in the
country—contact us.
To buy the New York Times bestselling Notorious USA series and learn
more about the books, please visit our website:
www.notorioususa.com