Smooth Talker: Trail of Death

Smooth Talker: Trail of Death

New From New York Times Bestselling True Crime Author Steve Jackson
A Shocking Story Of A Brutal Murderer And The Intrepid Police Investigators Who Tracked Him Down And Made Him Pay

One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagianiâ€™s Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California was found dead in her barâ€“raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy. Sheâ€™d last been seen alive the night before talking to a drifter who sat at the end of the bar, playing cards and flirting with her. But the stranger, along with Anitaâ€™s Cadillac, had disappeared. Unable to locate a suspect, police investigators sadly watched the case grow cold over the years.

"Jackson writes with muscle and heart.--New York Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen

Meanwhile a month after Anitaâ€™s murder, young Michele Wallace, was driving down a road in the mountains near Crested Butte, Colorado, when she gave two stranded motorists, Chuck Matthews and a man named Roy, a ride. Dropping Matthews off at a bar in Gunnison, she agreed to take â€œRoyâ€ to his truck. She was never seen alive again, nor could a massive search of the mountains locate her remains. The trail leading to her killer also ran into deadends.

Fourteen years later, Charlotte Sauerwin, engaged to be married, met a smooth-talking man at a Laundromat in Livingston Parish, Louisiana. The next evening, her body was found in the woods; sheâ€™d been raped, tortured, and her throat slashed. The police suspected her fiance, Vince LeJeune, though he proclaimed his innocence to anyone who would listen. Meanwhile, the man from the Laundromat couldnâ€™t be located.

The three murders would remain unsolved, eating at the hearts, minds and lives of the womenâ€™s families, friends and communities. Then in the early 1990s, a rookie Gunnison County sheriffâ€™s investigator named Kathy Young began looking into the Wallace case and identified a suspect named Roy Melanson, a serial rapist from Texas. It would lead her and other investigators looking into murders and rapes in other states to a serial killer who struck again and again with seeming impunity. SMOOTH TALKER is the story of Melanson, his depredations, and the intrepid police work that went into bringing him to justice not just in Colorado, but California and Louisiana.

Country	USA
Author	Steve Jackson
Binding	Kindle Edition
EISBN	9781942266440
Format	Kindle eBook
IsAdultProduct
Label	WildBlue Press
Manufacturer	WildBlue Press
NumberOfPages	190
PublicationDate	2016-04-07
Publisher	WildBlue Press
ReleaseDate	2016-04-07
Studio	WildBlue Press

Smooth Talker: Trail of Death

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