Bøker av Larry Maravich

Taylor Marks appeared to be young lady with everything going for her. Financial security, a loving mother prepared, it seemed, to do anything for a much-loved daughter. Why then, would she pay a friend $5000 to kill that caring parent?Like so much in life, Taylor Marks' story is much more complicated than appears on the surface. Today, as she sits in an Ohio prison, knowing that she will die without ever again being free, we can wonder about her thoughts. To what extent does she regret her actions? And what is the full degree of her guilt?

Lisa Shuler was to be convicted of murder in the first degree in 2014. But whatever possessed the sweet, quiet and church-going woman to commit such a horrific crime?It was as Lisa and her husband Brandon were approaching their tenth wedding anniversary that something appears to have changed within the God-fearing, upright pillar of the New Albany community. It seems as though, for the loyal wife and model citizen, days of giving uncomplainingly to others were beginning to be replaced by a sense of her own unhappiness; a feeling that 'me time' became suddenly important to her. Like many women, and men, who have committed themselves unthinkingly to others, the time came for Lisa to re-evaluate her life. And from this self-analysis emerged the sense that something was missing. And she had to kill to do something about it.

Joyce Cohen thought she hit the jackpot when she married construction mogul Stan Cohen. The young Joyce was finally able to live the life of entitlement she thought she deserved while partying it up in Cohen's mansion, ranches, and night clubs. But her party would come to an end five years later when she would claim that three burglars invaded her home and killed Stan. The authorities believed her at first until a felon disclosed to police that they were hired by Joyce to kill Stan. Prosecutors then took the bait, painting Joyce as a gold digging murderer who plotted Stan's killing when he threatened divorce. But did she do it? This True Crime anthology examines the who's and why's of the Stan Cohen murder.

Accounts of an abusive Catholic priest, a nun questioning her vows, a missing girl reported to the Church rather than the police. A body chewed to nothing by wildlife. A second murder, with links to the first. Nearly forty years after her death, police in Baltimore are no closer to finding the culprit in the disturbing case of Catherine Cesnik than they were back in 1969.Was she simply the victim of a robbery gone wrong? Had she been sexually assaulted, then killed, her body left to rot on the wastelands of the most run-down part of the city? Or was the case connected with a priest, later accused of crimes against the young, whose actions were about to be revealed?