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You Belong to Me and Other True Crime Cases (Crime Files, # 2)

You Belong to Me and Other True Crime Cases by Ann Rule

My rating: 4 of 5 stars

"You Belong to Me": I-95 Indian River County FL 1990: State trooper picks a convenient victim on whom to take out his murderous rage at his wife
"Black Christmas": Seattle 1984: a lawyer and his family are murdered because a young man (who was judged legally sane, but I'm not convinced) fixated on Communists as the cause of all his problems and decided to start killing them, and because he read and confabulated an old story about the lawyer's father--and that story wasn't even what he thought it was. David Lewis Rice used a steam iron to bludgeon the lawyer, his wife, and their two little boys to death.
One Trick Pony": Yakima WA 1975: This is the obverse face of Why Buy the Cow?: Murder Is Cheaper than Divorce. Man murders his wife and fakes the scene to look like she was kicked by one of her horses; determined efforts on the part of the woman's sister finally get people looking at her skull who know a HAMMER when they see its shape in someone's skull.
"The Computer Error and the Killer": Burien WA 1974 (and several other dates and places): the ghastly career of Gary Addison Taylor
"The Vanishing": Seattle WA 1979: this one's a mystery without a murder. Stacy Sparks disappeared without a trace in 1979. Friends, family, police searched and searched without success. She and her car were finally found by construction workers in 1981 where she had gone off the Lacey V. Murrow Bridge, one of many victims of the bridge's infamous "bulge." No one saw it happen and the accident left no evidence above the surface of the water.
"The Last Letter": Bellevue WA 1985: man sends suicide letter (detailing his decades-long stalker obsession with the woman who eventually became his second wife) to basically everyone he knows, murders wife, then fails to go through with the suicide part