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Secrets from the Grave

By: Maria Eftimiades

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***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** He was a beloved family physician and a ruthless doctor of death who almost got away with murder. It was a friendly hunting trip--two men kicking back, shooting at clay pigeons on campgrounds near rural Montrose, Pa. Then, a single shot rang out. Moments later, Marty Dillon, a promising young lawyer, was dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. His friend, Dr. Stephen Scher, later tearfully explained that Dillon had been running with a shotgun after a porcupine, and tripped and fell, accidentally killing himself. But what really happened? Marty Dillon's violent death was immediately declared an accident by the local coroner in 1976. But as Dillon's body was lowered into the cold ground, did a damning secret, one that would haunt his friends and family for decades, go with him? * Were rumors of an affair between Dr. Scher and Marty's wife, Pat, true? * Why did the couple marry so soon after Dillon's death? * If the shot was self-inflicted, why did the bullet come from Dr. Scher's gun? * What was it about Dillon's bloody wound that cast suspicion on Scher? After 20 years of pleading with authorities and finally hiring their own investigators, Dillon's parents persuaded the Pennsylvania State Police to reopen the case. They exhumed Dillon's body--and his decayed remains told the real story of that tragic day two decades earlier. On October 22, 1997, Dr. Stephen Scher was convicted of the murder of Marty Dillon--final justice for a cold-blooded killer who for 20 years thought he had gotten away with murder. Maria Eftimiades recounts the shocking true story in Secrets from the Grave.

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1466868201

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Secrets from the Grave

By: Maria Eftimiades

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By: Maria Eftimiades

On June 2, 1976, attorney Marty Dillon went hunting with his best friend, physician Stephen Scher. Dillon never returned. According to Scher, Dillon tripped while chasing a porcupine; the shotgun he was carrying fired, discharging directly into his heart. When Scher married his best friend's widow less than two years after the accident, residents of their small town became suspicious. After 20 years, Dillon's parents won the battle to exhume Dillon's body for a new autopsy. Pathologist's found that the wound could not have been self-inflicted and Dillon's death was ruled a homicide. This is the true story of the murder of Dillon and the arrest of his friend Stephen Scher for the crime.

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0312965842

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9780312965846

Lethal Lolita

A True Story of Sex, Scandal and Deadly Obsession

By: Maria Eftimiades

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Lethal Lolita

A True Story of Sex, Scandal and Deadly Obsession

By: Maria Eftimiades

Her father called her his little princess... The adored only child of affluent parents who placed the world at her feet, Amy Fisher had a glowing future. But she yearned for excitement, for the dark thrill of danger. Her friends called her a mysterious loner... While her classmates happily planned dates for the prom, 17-year-old Amy Fisher appalled them with tales of her wild sexual escapades, of her steamy, obsessive alleged affair with a married man--of a wife she wanted out of the picture. Police called her a call girl and a killer... But it wasn't until Amy was arrested for attempting to slay unsuspecting Mary Jo Buttafuoco in cold blood in front of her own home, that police and reporters uncovered stories that included a sinister hidden world of secret call girl rings, attempts to hire hitmen with payment in sex--and a beeper still nestled in her purse on which clients could page her with personal codes. Veteran People reporter Maria Eftimiades has covered the case in Lethal Lolita--and in this riveting book reveals a story even more shocking than the sensational headlines that captured the attention of the nation, and turn an all-American town inside out.

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1466863137

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Garden of Graves

The Shocking True Story of Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rifkin

By: Maria Eftimiades

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Garden of Graves

The Shocking True Story of Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rifkin

By: Maria Eftimiades

***Please note: This ebook edition does not contain the photos found in the print edition.*** Neighbors knew him as the quiet, unemployed landscaper who tended his mother's beautiful garden. None of them ever suspected that the foul odors coming from his garage was the stench of death hanging over a blood-soaked wheelbarrow, or that the truck he used to carry fresh soil and flower bulbs in became a hearse once night fell... By night, he reaped a bloody harvest... Joel Rifkin cruised lower Manhattan carefully selecting his prey of mostly young prostitutes. Once they were inside his van, the gentle guy who told them he just wanted sex turned into a deranged monster who strangled them with savage force. His lust for killing satisfied, he then stuffed his victims' broken bodies in barrels, trunks and suitcases, dumping them like trash in remote areas across three states. The only trace they left were the photographs, jewelry, and personal mementos their sadistic murderer displayed on his bureau shelf--macabre trophies of his kills. Until the police uncovered his grim garden of death... The nightmare might never have ended if state troopers hadn't arrested Rifkin for a minor traffic violation. Wrapped in a blue tarp in the back of his truck they found the decomposing body of a young streetwalker. Hours after the grisly discovery, horrified detectives listened as Rifkin coldly confessed to at least 17 murders, making him one of the most vicious serial killers of all time--worse than Ted Bundy, Arthur Shawcross and Son of Sam! Maria Eftimiades tells this shocking true story in Garden of Graves.

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1466863129

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Sins of the Mother

The Heartbreaking True Story Behind the Susan Smith Murder Case

By: Maria Eftimiades

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Sins of the Mother

The Heartbreaking True Story Behind the Susan Smith Murder Case

By: Maria Eftimiades

A Heart-Stopping Page-Turner: Unravel the Unthinkable in Sins of the Mother On October 25, 1994, a hysterical Susan Smith told police a tale that would strike terror in the hearts of mothers everywhere: An unidentified gunman had sped off with her two little boys, leaving her screaming on the side of the road. For more than a week, the people in the tiny town of Union, South Carolina, rallied around the young mother. They combed the woods and neighborhood parks for the missing children and prayed for their safe return, while FBI teams launched a massive manhunt. No one ever suspected that the pretty 23-year-old who tearfully pleaded for her children in front of millions of TV viewers could be capable of such a heartless act...until she led police to the watery graves of her young sons. Join the shaken community's journey of grappling with their sorrow, anger, and confusion. Sins of the Mother is more than a crime story; it's an exploration of human frailty and the dark side of maternal love.

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1466863145

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Sins of the Mother

By: Maria Eftimiades

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On October 25. 1994, a hysterical Susan Smith told police a tale that would strike terror in the hearts of mothers everywhere. An unidentified gunman had sped off with her two little boys, leaving her screaming on the side of the road. For more than a week, the people in the tiny town of Union, South Carolina rallied around the young mother. They combed the woods and neighborhood parks for the missing children and prayed for their safe return, while FBI teams launched a massive manhunt. No one ever suspected that the pretty 23-year-old who tearfully pleaded for her children in front of millions of TV viewers could be capable of such a heartless act...until she led police to the watery graves of her young sons. Now, as a shaken community confronts its outrage and sorrow, a stunned nation asks how is could have happened.

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0094753903

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Lethal Lolita

A True Story of Sex, Scandal and Deadly Obsession

By: Maria Eftimiades

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Lethal Lolita

A True Story of Sex, Scandal and Deadly Obsession

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Garden of Graves

The Shocking True Story of Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rifkin

By: Maria Eftimiades

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The Shocking True Story of Long Island Serial Killer Joel Rifkin

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The Heartbreaking True Story Behind the Susan Smith Murder Case

By: Maria Eftimiades

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The Heartbreaking True Story Behind the Susan Smith Murder Case

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