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In the Still of the Night: The Strange Death of Ronda Reynolds and Her Mother's Unceasing Quest for the Truth
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Ann Rule
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Pocket Books
Publication date
December 27, 2011
Pages
440
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9781416544616
ISBN-10
1416544615
Dimensions
1.25 by 4 by 6.75 in.
Weight
0.46 lbs.
Original list price
$7.99
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Summaries and Reviews
Amazon.com description: Product Description: FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soonâand a determined motherâs eleven-year crusade to clear her daughterâs name.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Rondaâs second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. "Iâm actually looking forward to getting on with my life," she told her mother earlier the night before. "I just need a few days with you guys." Barb Thompson, Rondaâs mother, who had met her daughterâs second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.
At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife was dead. She had committed suicide, he said, although he hadnât heard the gunshot and he didnât know if she had a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives arrived, the coronerâs deputy arrived, and a postmortem was conducted. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither visited the death scene nor attended the autopsy, declared the manner of Rondaâs death as "undetermined." Over the next eleven years, Coroner Wilson would change that manner of death from "undetermined" to "suicide," back to "undetermined"âand then back to "suicide" again.
But Barb Thompson never for one moment believed her daughter committed suicide. Neither did Detective Jerry Berry or ballistics expert Marty Hayes or attorney Royce Ferguson or dozens of Rondaâs friends. For eleven grueling years, through the ups and downs of the legal system and its endless delays, these people and others helped Barb Thompson fight to strike that painful word from her daughterâs death certificate.
On November 9, 2009, a precedent-setting hearing was held to determine whether Coroner Wilsonâs office had been derelict in its duty in investigating the death of Ronda Reynolds. Veteran true-crime writer Ann Rule was present at that hearing, hoping to unbraid the tangled strands of conflicting statements and mishandled evidence and present all sides of this haunting case and to determine, perhaps, what happened to Ronda Reynolds, in the chill still of that tragic December night.
It was nine days before Christmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to visit her mother and brother and grandmother before the holidays. Rondaâs second marriage was dissolving after less than a year, her career as a pioneering female Washington State Trooper had ended, but she was optimistic about starting over again. "Iâm actually looking forward to getting on with my life," she told her mother earlier the night before. "I just need a few days with you guys." Barb Thompson, Rondaâs mother, who had met her daughterâs second husband only once before, was just happy that Ronda was coming home.
At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife was dead. She had committed suicide, he said, although he hadnât heard the gunshot and he didnât know if she had a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives arrived, the coronerâs deputy arrived, and a postmortem was conducted. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither visited the death scene nor attended the autopsy, declared the manner of Rondaâs death as "undetermined." Over the next eleven years, Coroner Wilson would change that manner of death from "undetermined" to "suicide," back to "undetermined"âand then back to "suicide" again.
But Barb Thompson never for one moment believed her daughter committed suicide. Neither did Detective Jerry Berry or ballistics expert Marty Hayes or attorney Royce Ferguson or dozens of Rondaâs friends. For eleven grueling years, through the ups and downs of the legal system and its endless delays, these people and others helped Barb Thompson fight to strike that painful word from her daughterâs death certificate.
On November 9, 2009, a precedent-setting hearing was held to determine whether Coroner Wilsonâs office had been derelict in its duty in investigating the death of Ronda Reynolds. Veteran true-crime writer Ann Rule was present at that hearing, hoping to unbraid the tangled strands of conflicting statements and mishandled evidence and present all sides of this haunting case and to determine, perhaps, what happened to Ronda Reynolds, in the chill still of that tragic December night.
Editions
Hardcover
Large print edition from Thorndike Pr (January 5, 2011)
9781410433657 | details & prices | 579 pages | 6.00 × 9.00 × 1.25 in. | 1.55 lbs | List price $32.99
from Free Pr (October 12, 2010)
9781416544609 | details & prices | 404 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 1.25 in. | 1.45 lbs | List price $26.99
Paperback
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Reprint edition from Pocket Books (December 27, 2011)
9781416544616 | details & prices | 440 pages | 4.00 × 6.75 × 1.25 in. | 0.46 lbs | List price $7.99
About: FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soonâand a determined motherâs eleven-year crusade to clear her daughterâs name.
About: FROM TRUE-CRIME LEGEND ANN RULE comes this riveting story of a young woman whose life ended too soonâand a determined motherâs eleven-year crusade to clear her daughterâs name.
CD/Spoken Word
With Blair Brown (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Simon & Schuster (November 6, 2012)
9781442355613 | details & prices | 5.25 × 6.25 × 0.75 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $14.99
With Blair Brown (other contributor) |
Abridged edition from Simon & Schuster (October 12, 2010)
9780743599733 | details & prices | 5.25 × 5.75 × 1.00 in. | 0.16 lbs | List price $29.99
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