{"product_id":"murder-by-suicide-a-reporter-unravels-a-true-case-of-rape-betrayal-and-lies","title":"MURDER By SUICIDE: A reporter unravels a true case of rape, betrayal and lies","description":"Linda Cumming’s first day in The Aladdin apartments was anything but magical. She was drugged, raped and strangled.\n\nHer killer then tightened a rope around her neck and hung her naked body three feet off the floor in an clumsy attempt to make it look like a suicide. And then he spread lies that she had no friends, no family and had just been released from a mental stay at a local hospital.\n\nHis lies worked.\n\nA deputy coroner prematurely, mistakenly and incredibly red-stamped cause of death as SUICIDE.\n\nIt wasn't long before most folks at The Aladdin forgot the tragic story about the young woman with the pointy glasses who killed herself in apartment 8.\n\nBut then another woman was strangled at the Aladdin.\n\nThe killer may have confused the cops, fooled the coroner, and beat the system, but he didn’t factor in one thing: a tenacious newspaper reporter who refused to accept the coroner’s finding.\n\nWhat follows is an extraordinary tale of diligence full of twists and turns over the span of a lifetime by journalist Larry Welborn to expose the truth of a murder camouflaged to look like a suicide.\n\nThis is not your typical detective whodunit mystery.\n\nThis is a true story demonstrating the lengths a journalist will go to stand up for the underdog.\n\nOver four decades Welborn interviewed more than 60 people, collected thousands of pages of police reports, coroner’s reports and transcripts, and traveled to three states to tell the unlikely story of a murder by suicide.\n\nHe pestered the police, challenged prosecutors and pushed the stone of Linda’s injustice up the hill over and over for nearly a half-century.\n\nWelborn’s tenacious pursuit of the truth – and of Linda’s killer – is the backbone of this book.\n\nSometimes it reads like a modern version of Les Misérables where justice and the good guys were the real victims and where lies, pretense, and deceit too often prevailed.\n\nWelborn not only shows how and who killed Linda Cummings, he also explains how he got away with it. And why.\n\nHe also confirms that Linda was a spunky young woman, beloved by many, and deserving of some kind of justice decades after her death.\n\nIn the end, this is the story of one journalist’s dogged pursuit of the truth that ultimately makes this true crime story a triumph for her loved ones – and for those who care about getting the story right.\n\nDid good journalism and a tenacious decades-long pursuit of the truth get justice for Linda when the criminal justice system could not? Could Welborn restore Linda’s dignity, preserve her legacy, and right the wrong?\n\nFind out in Murder by Suicide: a reporter unravels a true case of rape, betrayal and lies.\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0D7TJ4HW1\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: GBV.B0D7TJ4HW1.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Welborn, Larry|Rempel, William C.\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Has a sturdy binding with some shelf wear. May have some markings or highlighting. Used copies may not include access codes or Cd's. Slight bending may be present.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Good Books Company","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51294780457265,"sku":"GBV.B0D7TJ4HW1.G","price":25.08,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0914\/3730\/2065\/files\/B0D7TJ4HW1-0.jpg?v=1745782703","url":"https:\/\/goodbookscompany.org\/products\/murder-by-suicide-a-reporter-unravels-a-true-case-of-rape-betrayal-and-lies","provider":"Good Books Company","version":"1.0","type":"link"}