- This case was featured on Inside Edition, Good Morning America, and 48 Hours.- Author is a Pulitzer Prize-nominated journalist who covered this case from arrest to sentencing for The San Diego Union-Tribune.- Can be compared to Perfect Poison (Pinnacle 6/03), as a beautiful woman uses poison to...
They were introduced by one of Wayne’s coworkers at Shakey’s Pizza in Irvine, who also worked with Kelly at a bank. Wayne was still in the marines and Kelly was in college, living in an apartment on campus.Kelly liked the macho silent type, so she was attracted to Wayne, who seemed a bit standoff...
All he needed to know before making up his mind about the place was that its proud fathers built a giant lemon statue on a grassy median downtown. A beach bum at heart, Goode tried to avoid East County whenever possible. It made him feel like he’d been transported to the B...
On the afternoon of March 14, Gardner was crying at his cell door, saying he wanted to hurt himself. “Please handcuff me,” Gardner told the deputy who was notified by a nurse about his suicide threat. “What’s wrong?” the deputy asked. “I don’t like this medicine. I don’t like how it makes me feel...
When she walked into a room, everyone stopped talking. In the halls, her colleagues looked down or away, anywhere but her eyes.After the other instructors left for the weekend, she sat in her empty offi alone with her thoughts.Margo was concerned about drawing Patsy any further into this mess and...
Alleging bias against the state’s case and a lack of impartiality by Lindberg, prosecutor Joe Butner asked for a meeting in the judge’s chambers, requesting that he recuse himself from the case. Lindberg granted the meeting on April 2. He restated his previous comments from an in-chambers meeting...
They all said no. Nor did they think Bill would have let anyone else sign for him on a document or check. All three of them also denied knowing anything about business plans that Bill had with Nanette. In fact, Jenny recalled Bill telling her that he planned to divest himself of the majority of h...