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Alpine Manor was the finest nursing home in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Clean, efficient, and safe, elderly patients and their loved ones could always rely on the care they received there.
Until November 29, 1988, when the shocking news exploded in the local media. Alpine Manor nurses' aides Catherine May Wood, a twenty-eight year-old wife and mother, and Gwendolyn Gail Graham, her lover, were arrested in connection with the horrible suffocation murders of five patients. Cunning and evasive, Wood finally confessed to police about her bizarre relationship with Graham and claimed that the killings were part of their eternal love pact to spell M-U-R-D-E-R with the victims' names. The sensational trial stunned the nation with its lurid details of the obsessive sexual violence and blind jealousy that led to the slaughter of innocent women. Wood and Graham were convicted for murder and sentenced to prison. Graham received five consecutive life sentences; Wood a total of twenty to forty years. In the bestselling tradition of SMALL SACRIFICES and FATAL VISION, Cauffiel's true crime masterpiece FOREVER AND FIVE DAYS gives us not only the facts of these inhuman crimes, but insight into the minds of the psychopaths driven to commit them!
Until November 29, 1988, when the shocking news exploded in the local media. Alpine Manor nurses' aides Catherine May Wood, a twenty-eight year-old wife and mother, and Gwendolyn Gail Graham, her lover, were arrested in connection with the horrible suffocation murders of five patients. Cunning and evasive, Wood finally confessed to police about her bizarre relationship with Graham and claimed that the killings were part of their eternal love pact to spell M-U-R-D-E-R with the victims' names. The sensational trial stunned the nation with its lurid details of the obsessive sexual violence and blind jealousy that led to the slaughter of innocent women. Wood and Graham were convicted for murder and sentenced to prison. Graham received five consecutive life sentences; Wood a total of twenty to forty years. In the bestselling tradition of SMALL SACRIFICES and FATAL VISION, Cauffiel's true crime masterpiece FOREVER AND FIVE DAYS gives us not only the facts of these inhuman crimes, but insight into the minds of the psychopaths driven to commit them!
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FOREVER broke new ground
FOREVER AND FIVE DAYS broke new ground in the true-crime genre. It was the first book not only about a female serial killer, but a pair of them. At the time of its publication in 1992, it was the first book to break the traditional boundaries of true crime. Back then, true crime stories were preoccupied with murder among wealthy or middle class Americans. Instead, FOREVER delved into an underworld of of subordinary people doing extraordinary acts. Many publishing houses refused to buy the book because of its lesbian villains. But when this book was published, noted true crime master Jack Olsen called Cauffiel "the future of true crime." Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of HELTER SKELTER, called FOREVER "the terrifying story of obsession and the poewr of the diabolical mind. A terrific read!"
About the Author:
FOREVER AND FIVE DAYS broke new ground in the true-crime genre. It was the first book not only about a female serial killer, but a pair of them. At the time of its publication in 1992, it was the first book to break the traditional boundaries of true crime. Back then, true crime stories were preoccupied with murder among wealthy or middle class Americans. Instead, FOREVER delved into an underworld of of subordinary people doing extraordinary acts. Many publishing houses refused to buy the book because of its lesbian villains. But when this book was published, noted true crime master Jack Olsen called Cauffiel "the future of true crime." Vincent Bugliosi, the prosecutor of Charles Manson and author of HELTER SKELTER, called FOREVER "the terrifying story of obsession and the poewr of the diabolical mind. A terrific read!"
Lowell Cauffiel is an American true crime author, novelist, and TV producer. A native of Michigan, he was an award-winning reporter with the Detroit News and Detroit Monthly Magazine during the 1970s and 1980s. Cauffiel began his book-writing career in 1988 with Masquerade: A True Story of Seduction, Compulsion and Murder. That title and the 1997 New York Times bestseller House of Secrets have appeared on numerous critics' lists of the best works in American true crime. In 2002, Cauffiel began writing and producing crime documentaries. Cauffiel is a surfer and motorcyclist. He has worked in alcohol and drug rehabilitation circles as a volunteer and headed a research grant about alcohol problems among young people for the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism (NIAA) for the National Institutes of Health. Visit him on Facebook.
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- PublisherPinnacle Books,U.S.
- Publication date2010
- ISBN 10 0786022272
- ISBN 13 9780786022274
- BindingMass Market Paperback
- Number of pages320
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