The crimes that were committed were so heinous and unbelievable that you wanted to believe it was a bad fiction murder story. This is one of my favorite true crime books by Ann Rule even though it doesn't sound right to say favorite about a true life crime.
Her daughter is Goodreads author Leslie Rule. She is highly regarded for creating the true crime genre as it exists today.Īnn Rule also wrote under the name Andy Stack. She was nominated three times for the Edgar Awards from the Mystery Writers of America. Rule won two Anthony Awards from Bouchercon, the mystery fans' organization. In the course of time, it became clear that the killer was Bundy, her friend and her colleague as a trained volunteer on the suicide hotline at the Seattle, Washington Crisis Clinic, giving her a unique distinction among true crime writers. At the time she started researching the book, the murders were still unsolved.
She came to prominence with her first book, The Stranger Beside Me, about the Ted Bundy murders. She was a former Seattle Policewoman and was well educated in psychology and criminology. Raised in a law enforcement and criminal justice system environment, she grew up wanting to work in law enforcement herself. A complex and often dangerous investigation suggested a horrifying scenario: Was the seemingly bland David Brown really a stone-cold killer who convinced his own daughter to prove her love by killing for him? A man who turned young women into his own personal slaves, who collected nearly $1 million in insurance money, and married his dead wife's teenage sister, David Brown was a sociopath who would stop at nothing.a deadly charmer who almost got away with everything.Īnn Rule was a popular American true crime writer. But in the wake of Cinnamon's murder conviction, thanks in part to two determined lawmen, the twisted private world of David Brown himself unfolded with astonishing clarity - revealing a trail of perverse love, twisted secrets, and evil mind games.
The California courts sentenced her harshly: twenty-four years to life. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. There was only one way to please her father: Murder his wife.ĭavid Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two.
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