Death in a Red Desert - Couverture souple

Stallings, Dianne De Leon; Stallings, C. L.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0977261468 ISBN 13 : 9780977261468

Editeur : PPC Publications, 2018

Synopsis

Death in a Red Desert, a ground breaking case in animal DNA forensic investigation, was featured on the television network Animal Planet. The manuscript chronicles the unusual triangle between a woman, her lover and his transvestite partner, and the events leading up to the disappearance and murder of Elizabeth Langhorst-Ballard. The authors based the work on depositions, trial transcripts and tapes, and on interviews with the detectives, officials in the district attorney’s office, the victim’s parents and with Charles Martinez, one of the two convicted murderers. Some of the information, using as a guide court documentation and letters written by the other defendant Chris Faviell, is related in a conversational manner to enhance the flow of the story. Names of a few minor figures were changed. Many of the events and the trials are viewed through the eyes of the lead detective, Wolfgang Born, who was an invaluable resource in writing the account, as was the lead prosecutor Canon Stevens. After Born’s dogged search for the victim’s body in thousands of square miles of red desert in the Tularosa Basin of Otero County, New Mexico, yielded success, the persistence of the late Jim Biggs, a Ruidoso detective, led to Dr. Joy Halverson, whose DNA work on the case made history and was highlighted on the Animal Witness series in 2008. Canines played key roles in solving the crime from the pit bull pet of one of the killers to desert coyotes and a cadaver dog on his last assignment before retirement.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dianne deLeon-Stallings writes for magazines, began a reporting career in 1970 that resulted in a Pulitzer Prize nomiation on the team project for "The St. Petersburg Times" during her 19-year career there, and a dozen awards for her writing and photography with the "Ruidoso News", where she covered the Lankhorst-Ballard trial. C.L. Stallings is an award winning newspaper and magazine writer, author of "The Florida Hospital Index", a former newspaper editor and previously owned his own marketing agency in Naples, Florida.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: PPC Publications
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0977261468
• ISBN 13: 9780977261468
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 256
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