Like wounded animals, they are blinded by pain and rage by the loss of their lovers. Obsessed by sexual jealousy, they lose control of their lives, their hatred eating inside until they explode into violence and murder. These are stories about secrets, lies, and passion gone wrong. These are stories about murder. Real stories.
The Murder of Betty Solomon
In the early evening of 15 January, 1989, a 911 operator received a frantic call. Forty-year-old Betty Solomon uttered only six words before the call was disconnected. The operator alerted the police, but an error in communications led them to a wrong address. At 11:42 pm, the body of Betty Solomon was found by her husband in the family's Greenburgh apartment. She had been pistol whipped and shot nine times.
The Murder of Jessica Manners
On the Easter Sunday morning of 26 March, 1989, the nude body of Jessica Manners was found dumped on a rocky embankment near the edge of Setauket Harbor, Long Island, about five miles from her home. The Suffolk County police said that she had been strangled but that they had no suspects or motive in the case, the second murder of a teen-age girl on Long Island in that month. Shocked and saddened, the residents of the Strathmore neighborhood were asking one question over and over: Why did 14-year-old Jessica Manners leave her house late Saturday?
The Murder of Noreen Boyle
A 12-year-old boy leans towards the microphone in the witness stand, his face perfectly composed under his youthful 1980s haircut. His sweater and collared shirt are neatly arranged. The courtroom and the entire town of Mansfield, Ohio are transfixed; this boy, Landry, is giving critical evidence in the murder trial of his mother, who was found dead, encased in concrete with a plastic bag over her head, under the basement floor of his father
