Vanished
Cold Blooded Murder In Steel
On Sale: 03/18/2014
Vanished
Cold Blooded Murder In Steel
On Sale: 03/18/2014
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About the Book
A man rages in his home on April 4, 1999, breaking furniture and dishes. A woman wants to leave him. "You're not going anywhere," he tells her. Later that day, a police officer reports to the house and finds human tissue and organs in a bag left out for garbage. The person of interest in the case is a steelworker named Sam Pirrera, who lives in the house. But who is the victim? Sam's current estranged wife, Danielle? It is known that they had a stormy relationship; Sam had assaulted her as his coke addiction returned. Forensic detectives find traces of blood in the basement and then the entire corpse, dismembered, the parts hidden behind a false wall and packed in boxes, each of the parts wrapped and doused in gasoline. The victim's identity is discovered through prints to be a prostitute named Maggie Karer. The dismemberment, "defensive mutilation," is calculated and deliberate, and the detectives wonder: Are there more victims?
Following an investigation led by veteran homicide detective Peter Abi Rashed, who had once chased a young Sam Pirrera on the streets of Hamilton's east end many years before, Vanished takes us behind the scenes of a grisly real-life case and its shocking outcome.
Product Details
- ISBN: 9781443428064
- ISBN 10: 144342806X
- Imprint: HarperCollins Publishers
- On Sale: 03/18/2014
- Pages: 224
- List Price:21.99 CAD
- BISAC1 : TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
