Desribes the killings of Thomas and Jackie Hawks, a retired probation officer and his wife, allegedly at the hands of Skylar Deleon, a former child actor, and his co-conspirator, his wife Jennifer, who plotted to steal their life savings and throw them overboard from their own yacht. Original.

In October 2002, the quiet northern California town of Orinda was rocked when Susan Polk, the mother of three teenage boys, was arrested for stabbing her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, to death. Here, journalist Pogash reconstructs the case. Examining the decadent culture of California in the 1970s, Pogash looks at how, in this period of drugs and sexual exploration, a teen found herself caught in the grasp of a therapist who, like many others, fell for every passing trend in mental healththerapy. Pogash reconstructs the vague beginnings of the couple's sexual relationship in the therapist's office, exploring how Felix's relaxed attitude toward therapy blinded him to the complex nature of Susan's mental state, and how their mutual obsession with each other sealed their fate. Pogash also provides a first-hand account of the media-circus murder trial in which Susan defended herself.--From publisher description.Recounts the murder case in which Susan Polk was tried and convicted in the stabbing death of her husband and former therapist, Dr. Felix Polk, detailing Polk's relationship with her husband, which began when she was a troubled teenager.

Describes the murder of Dr. Felix Polk, a psychologist, the arrest of his wife, Susan, for the crime, and the trial in which Susan argued that her marriage involved manipulation and psychological abuse, and the killing had been in self-defense.

The Court TV analyst and author of A Deadly Game offers an inside look at the bizarre case of Susan Polk, the mother of three and wife of her former therapist, a man twenty-five years her senior, who after years of alleged abuse, stabbed to death the man who had seduced his teenage patient three decades earlier. Read by Catherine Crier. Simultaneous.

Product Description: This singular book follows a mad, tumultuous landscape without remorse or pity, the high and low life of Hollywood/LA. Gilmore obsesses on a relentless panorama of sex, violence and death in five new chronicles of So Cal sickness: *the sex-and-drug soaked Wonderland murders featuring porn legend John Holmes *Sexpot Starlet Barbara Payton's hellbent descent into the gutters of Tinseltown *the Hollywood Hooker who landed in San Quentin's gas chamber, the Ice Blonde Murderess Barbara Graham For those already steeped in the canon of John Gilmore's work, this is the long-awaited true-crime capstone to a celebrated collection of works, a blood-and-semen-soaked noir trail of all-night diners, nightclubs and cheap motels...read more

Traces the long-unsolved murder case of British chemist Helen Greenwood, who was killed while Paul Frediani was on trial for sexually assaulting her, and whose case was assisted years later by breakthroughs in forensic DNA analysis.