Family, Friends and Neighbors : Stories of Murder and Betrayal

Americans are almost four times more likely to be killed by someone they knewthan by a stranger. How well do you know those around you? Thirty-four stories of financial, romantic, and intimate betrayals!Intimacy and trust go hand-in-hand, but what happens when that trust is misplaced? What happens when insurance payouts become too enticing? Or when desperation and poverty become too much? Or when resentment over a childhood trauma overwhelms? Family, Friends and Neighbors: Stories of Murder and Betrayal looks at the chilling stories of brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, companions and confidants motivated by money, social status, andrevenge and those who mistakenly trusted them, including …The accused Victorian-era serial poisoner Mary Ann Cotton and the mysterious deaths of her husbands and children,Ax-wielding Lizzie Borden whose father and stepmother conveniently died, leaving her their inheritance,Preacher Marvin Gay, Sr. and his son, Marvin Gaye, Jr., and his son's possible death wish,Single mother Casey Anthony and her hollow claims that her child had been kidnapped by the babysitter,Bank vice president and embezzler Steven Francis Sueppel whose money woes had fatal consequences,Brothers Lyle and Erik Menendez whose parents were shot at close range and their remains pulverized,Heather Mack her boyfriend, Tommy Schaefer a trust fund, and a mother’s body in a suitcase,Brothers Michael and Robert Bever, who finally snapped after years of physical and verbal abuse by their parents,And the stories of dozens more brazen and ruthless murderers.Murdering to escape a marriage, dire desperation turned lethal, a violent veeraway from reality, and other less comprehensible motivations fill thepages of Family, Friends and Neighbors. You’ll read the stories, investigates the facts, learn the motives behind the killers who murder the people nearest and dearest to them.