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Like wounded animals, they are blinded by pain and rage by the loss of their lovers. Obsessed by sexual jealousy, they lose control of their lives, their hatred eating inside until they explode into violence and murder. These are stories about secrets, lies, and passion gone wrong. These are stories about murder. Real stories. The Murder of Betty Solomon In the early evening of 15 January, 1989, a 911 operator received a frantic call. Forty-year-old Betty Solomon uttered only six words before the call was disconnected. The operator alerted the police, but an error in communications led them to a wrong address. At 11:42 pm, the body of Betty Solomon was found by her husband in the family's Greenburgh apartment. She had been pistol whipped and shot nine times. The Murder of Jessica Manners On the Easter Sunday morning of 26 March, 1989, the nude body of Jessica Manners was found dumped on a rocky embankment near the edge of Setauket Harbor, Long Island, about five miles from her home. The Suffolk County police said that she had been strangled but that they had no suspects or motive in the case, the second murder of a teen-age girl on Long Island in that month. Shocked and saddened, the residents of the Strathmore neighborhood were asking one question over and over: Why did 14-year-old Jessica Manners leave her house late Saturday? The Murder of Noreen Boyle A 12-year-old boy leans towards the microphone in the witness stand, his face perfectly composed under his youthful 1980s haircut. His sweater and collared shirt are neatly arranged. The courtroom and the entire town of Mansfield, Ohio are transfixed; this boy, Landry, is giving critical evidence in the murder trial of his mother, who was found dead, encased in concrete with a plastic bag over her head, under the basement floor of his father's new home. The Murder of Dan & Linda Broderick The sleeping Linda, wearing a sheer nightgown, was curled next to her husband of less than seven months, snuggling under an expensive colonial print bedspread. They were a remarkably attractive couple, in the prime of their lives . . . lives that would last just a few minutes more. A creaking floor or some other slight sound stirred Dan from his sleep, and when he moved, Linda opened her eyes, too. They saw the intruder simultaneously. Linda screamed, Call the police! The Murder of Mary Cheshire & Darrell Durbin In the early morning hours of October 30, 1988, residents of the Alhambra Trailer Park in Palatka heard a gunshot, a scream that lasted just a few seconds, and another gunshot. One resident reported looking out his trailer and seeing nothing unusual. Another saw a bedroom light on in Darrell Durbin's trailer; also Durbin's front door was ajar. When daylight came, neighbors reported seeing that cars parked in front of Durbin's trailer had flat tires, because they had been slashed. These neighbors called the police and reported the suspicious events they had witnessed. When a deputy arrived, he received no response from inside the trailer and entered through an unlatched door. There, he found the nude bodies of a man and a woman, both of whom had been shot and killed. The victims were Mary Cheshire and Darrell Durbin.

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