Summary of Ann Rule's Lying in Wait

Everest Media

Description

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 I have covered thousands of criminal cases, and I have been able to winnow out the deluded and the liars early on. But not always. I had to take a closer look at Dana Rose, who had contacted me about a bizarre murder she had witnessed.
#2 The story of the nightmare that struck Athens is reduced to a few paragraphs and engraved upon a historic marker that sits smack in the middle of the lawn of Limestone County’s brick courthouse. It begins, Athens Sacked and Plundered, and briefly describes that dark May 2 in 1862 when Colonel John Basil Turchin turned loose his brigade of Union soldiers.
#3 Geneva Clemons was a protective mother, and she had longed for a little sister or brother. She was happy when she became pregnant with Tracy, her daughter.
#4 One night, Geneva was at the supermarket with her baby son, when a magazine photographer approached her to take his picture for a contest. She was not interested, but the stranger was persistent, and she eventually agreed.

Sujets

• Serial Killers
• Murder
• Serial killer
• True Crime

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 24 juillet 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9798822547513
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Insights on Ann Rule's Lying in Wait
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have covered thousands of criminal cases, and I have been able to winnow out the deluded and the liars early on. But not always. I had to take a closer look at Dana Rose, who had contacted me about a bizarre murder she had witnessed.

#2

The story of the nightmare that struck Athens is reduced to a few paragraphs and engraved upon a historic marker that sits smack in the middle of the lawn of Limestone County’s brick courthouse. It begins, Athens Sacked and Plundered, and briefly describes that dark May 2 in 1862 when Colonel John Basil Turchin turned loose his brigade of Union soldiers.

#3

Geneva Clemons was a protective mother, and she had longed for a little sister or brother. She was happy when she became pregnant with Tracy, her daughter.

#4

One night, Geneva was at the supermarket with her baby son, when a magazine photographer approached her to take his picture for a contest. She was not interested, but the stranger was persistent, and she eventually agreed.

#5

When Tracy was shot, she ran to her neighbor’s house, where her father’s aunt and uncle lived, crying, Mama! Mama! Help! Help! She had no other words to describe what had happened.

#6

The Malibu was speeding away from the scene of the crime when seven-year-old Dana Rose witnessed her mother shoot and kill a woman. She was terrified, but her sobs were soon replaced by soft sniffles as her stepfather smacked her across the face.

#7

The murder of Geneva Clemons was so cruel that it shocked the small Athens police force. The abductor had left the infant in a ditch by a field in Hartselle, Alabama, twenty-eight miles south of Athens.

#8

The Clemonses were unable to find the killer, and it was a woman with a child who had committed the crime. Tracy, however, could not forget the face of the killer. She had nightmares for years.

#9

On February 20, 1980, Lori Vaughn, age fifteen, of Oak Grove, Louisiana, gave birth to a baby girl at University Medical Center in Jackson, Mississippi. The next morning, around 10:30, the stranger showed up again. By now, Lori was comfortable with her, and she wasn’t worried when the woman took her baby.

#10

When the stranger complimented her baby, Cheryl felt proud. She had a wicked sense of humor that sometimes got her in trouble with the teachers at school, but she loved to make her sister laugh.

#11

When she was 13, Cheryl met her soul mate, Dennis, at school. They got married in December 1977 and had a daughter, Amanda, in 1979. Life was good for the Jones family until Cheryl encountered evil.

#12

Eventually, the couple brought Cheryl to a hotel, where they forced her to write a suicide note. They then drugged her and forced her to drink the soda until she overdosed.

#13

The killing of Geneva Clemons shocked Tracy’s family and friends, who were scared the killer would come after them. The police were unable to find the killer.

#14

The sisters Gladys and Ruth were married in 1928 and 1932, respectively. They all moved to Yakima, Washington, to escape the disapproval that their union inspired.

#15

The family was tempted to overcompensate after the loss of their baby Sandra, but they were always kind and welcoming to others. Jackie was fiercely loyal to her parents.

#16

Jackie’s family was struggling financially, while her teenage sister’s family was better off. The teenagers felt that the teenager looked down on them because she had nicer things than they did.

#17

Jackie’s friend Margaret said that whenever she saw Dana Rose and Deanna, they were dirty and their clothing was rumpled. They didn’t have many toys, and the ones they had were the cheap kind that broke easily.

#18

When she was not angry at the kids, Jackie seemed oblivious to them. She had other things on her mind and would ask Margaret, a nanny, if she ever killed someone.

#19

The investigation would cover horrific crimes that involved at least five states, left at least three children motherless, and wreaked immeasurable heartbreak. Oldham was never implicated in the murder of Geneva Clemons, but he knew something.

#20

The Bear Cave tavern is at the center of one of Seattle’s most complex cold cases. It had recently lost its liquor license, and detectives found evidence that at least three people had been sitting together and drinking sodas when the violence erupted.

#21

Bernard Oldham had a partner in crime who looked like a typical dowdy housewife.