Forever and Five Days: The Chilling True Story of Love, Betrayal, and Serial Murder in Grand Rapids, Michigan
Synopsis
For months, Cathy Wood has fed the Alpine Manor residents, bathed them, and even moistened their eyes with artificial tears. To her, without their memories the residents live in a state worse than death-and she has decided to relieve them of their pain. Wood and her lover, Gwen Graham, make a pact to kill those whom they were hired to care for. No one notices when an elderly person dies a quiet death, but as these two slip deeper into their plan, the terrible secret becomes unbearable. Lowell Cauffiel's account of the Alpine Manor murders is a chilling saga of true crime and the twisted lengths to which some will go in pursuit of justice.
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From the Author
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
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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