Secrets from the Grave (St. Martin's True Crime Library) - Softcover

Eftimiades, Maria

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312965842 ISBN 13: 9780312965846

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1998

Synopsis

He was a beloved family physician and a ruthless doctor of death who almost got away with murder. It was a friendly hunting trip-- two men kicking back, shooting at clay pigeons on campgrounds near rural Montrose, Pa. Then, a single shot rang out. Moments later, Marty Dillon, a promising young lawyer, was dead of a gunshot wound to the chest. His friend, Dr. Stephen Scher, later tearfully explained that Dillon had been running with a shotgun after a porcupine, and tripped and fell, accidentally killing himself. But what "really "happened? Marty Dillon's violent death was immediately declared an accident by the local coroner in 1976. But as Dillon's body was lowered into the cold ground, did a damning secret, one that would haunt his friends and family for decades, go with him? * Were rumors of an affair between Dr. Scher and Marty's wife, Pat, true?* Why did the couple marry so soon after Dillon's death?* If the shot was self-inflicted, why did the bullet come from Dr. Scher's gun?* What was it about Dillon's bloody wound that cast suspicion on Scher? After 20 years of pleading with authorities and finally hiring their own investigators, Dillon's parents persuaded the Pennsylvania State Police to reopen the case. They exhumed Dillon's body-- and his decayed remains told the real story of that tragic day two decaeds earlier. On October 22, 1997, Dr. Stephen Scher was convicted of the murder of Marty Dillon-- final justice for a cold-blooded killer who for 20 years thought he had gotten away with murder.

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Synopsis:

Describes how Stephen Scher brutally murdered his best friend while on a hunting trip--telling police it was a self-inflicted accident--and how, twenty years later, the victim's parents had the body exhumed and an autopsy performed, only to discover that Marty Dillon's death had been a homicide. Or

About this edition

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0312965842
• ISBN 13: 9780312965846
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 8