Worth More Dead: And Other True Cases (Ann Rule's Crime Files,...

Features

• Cover Type: Mass Market Paperback with 432 pages
• Published by: Pocket November 29, 2005
• Written in: English
• ISBN 10 Number: 074344874X
• ISBN 13 Number: 978-0743448741
• Book Dimensions: 6.7 x 4.1 x 1.5 inches
• Weighs: 6.4 ounces

Product Review
Go deep inside the darkest crimes and twisted minds of the most baffling killers and schemers -- with this collection of chilling cases from Ann Rule, "America's best true-crime writer"

-- Kirkus Reviews

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

Reader Reviews
Ann Rule is the reigning Ruler of True Crime - her forte being in-depth looks at a crime, victims, perps, cops, and prosecutors. Along the way to writing and releasing her Big Books, she gathers chaff which never quite made it into a book of its own - hence these "Ann Rule Crime Files" paperbacks of which this is the 10th. There is one bigger/small novella length crime coverage and then the "stocking stuffers." So, about once a year, Rule's readers get appetizers - not the "Full Meal Deals" that are Ann's forte. Still, a not-up-to-her-best Rule is better than the best of most of the rest in the genre. /TundraVision, Amazon Reviewer