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HIGHEST PRAISE FOR M. WILLIAM PHELPS

NEVER SEE THEM AGAIN

This riveting book examines one of the most horrific murders in recent American history.

New York Post

Phelps clearly shows how the ugliest crimes can take place in the quietest of suburbs.

Library Journal

Thoroughly reported... The book is primarily a police procedural, but it is also a tribute to the four murder victims.

Kirkus Reviews

TOO YOUNG TO KILL

Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers.

Allison Brennan

LOVE HER TO DEATH

Reading anything by Phelps is always an eye opening experience. His writing reads like a fiction mystery novel. The characters are well researched and well written. We have murder, adultery, obsession, lies and so much more.

Suspense Magazine

You dont want to miss Love Her To Death by M. William Phelps, a book destined to be one of 2011s top true crimes!

True Crime Book Reviews

A chilling crime... award-winning author Phelps goes into lustrous and painstaking detail, bringing all the players vividly to life.

Crime Magazine

KILL FOR ME

Pelps gets into the blood and guts of the story.

Gregg Olsen, New York Times best-selling author of Fear Collector

Phelps infuses his investigative journalism with plenty of energized descriptions.

Publishers Weekly

DEATH TRAP

A chilling tale of a sociopathic wife and mother willing to sacrifice all those around her to satisfy her boundless narcissism... a compelling journey from the inside of this womans mind to final justice in a court of law. Fair warning: for three days I did little else but read this book.

Harry N. MacLean, New York Times best-selling author of In Broad Daylight

ILL BE WATCHING YOU

Skillfully balances a victims story against that of an arrogant killer as it reveals a deviant mind intent on topping the worlds most dangerous criminals. Phelps has an unrelenting sense for detail that affirms his place, book by book, as one of our most engaging crime journalists.

Katherine Ramsland

IF LOOKS COULD KILL

M. William Phelps, one of Americas finest true-crime writers, has written a compelling and gripping book about an intriguing murder mystery. Readers of this genre will thoroughly enjoy this book.

Vincent Bugliosi

Starts quickly and doesnt slow down.... Phelps consistently ratchets up the dramatic tension, hooking readers before they even know theyve been hooked. His thorough research and interviews give the book a sense of growing complexity, richness of character, and urgency.

Stephen Singular

MURDER IN THE HEARTLAND

Drawing on interviews with law officers and relatives, the author has done significant research anddemonstrating how modern forensics and the Internet played critical, even unexpected roles in the investigationhis facile writing pulls the reader along.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Phelps expertly reminds us that when the darkest form of evil invades the quiet and safe outposts of rural America, the tragedy is greatly magnified. Get ready for some sleepless nights.

Carlton Stowers

This is the most disturbing and moving look at murder in rural America since Capotes In Cold Blood .

Gregg Olsen

SLEEP IN HEAVENLY PEACE

An exceptional book by an exceptional true crime writer. Phelps exposes long-hidden secrets and reveals disquieting truths.

Kathryn Casey

EVERY MOVE YOU MAKE

An insightful and fast-paced examination of the inner workings of a good cop and his bad informant, culminating in an unforgettable truth-is-stranger-than-fiction climax.

Michael M. Baden, M.D.

M. William Phelps is the rising star of the nonfiction crime genre, and his true tales of murderers and mayhem are scary-as-hell thrill rides into the dark heart of the inhuman condition.

Douglas Clegg

LETHAL GUARDIAN

An intense roller-coaster of a crime story... complex, with a plethora of twists and turns worthy of any great detective mystery, and yet so well-laid out, so crisply written with such detail to character and place that it reads more like a novel than your standard non-fiction crime book.

Steve Jackson

PERFECT POISON

True crime at its bestcompelling, gripping, an edge-of-the-seat thriller. Phelps packs wallops of delight with his skillful ability to narrate a suspenseful story and his encyclopedic knowledge of police procedures.

Harvey Rachlin

A compelling account of terror... the author dedicates himself to unmasking the psychopath with facts, insight and the other proven methods of journalistic leg work.

Lowell Cauffiel

Also By M. William Phelps

Perfect Poison
Lethal Guardian
Every Move You Make
Sleep in Heavenly Peace
Murder in the Heartland
Because You Loved Me
If Looks Could Kill
Ill Be Watching You
Deadly Secrets
Cruel Death
Death Trap
Kill For Me
Failures of the Presidents (coauthor)
Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of Americas First Spy
The Devils Rooming House: The True Story of Americas
Deadliest Female Serial Killer
The Devils Right Hand: The Tragic Story
of the Colt Family Curse
Love Her to Death
Too Young to Kill
Never See Them Again
The Dead Soul: A Thriller (available as e-book only)
Murder, New England
Jane Doe No More
Kiss of the She-Devil

BAD GIRLS

M. WILLIAM PHELPS

PINNACLE BOOKS
Kensington Publishing Corp.
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Table of Contents

AUTHORS NOTE

On the surface, this might seem like any other sensational true-crime tale. Girl meets girl. Girl falls head over heels. Drugs and sex and staying up partying for days at a time ensue. With that narrative playing as a background theme, fantasy and role-playing fun, along with a bit of amateur porn filmmaking tossed in, become the norm. When the rush of the drugs and living on the edge subsides, darkness settles; their lives go from petty shoplifting (zero) tofinallymurder (one hundred). Add to that a Thelma & Louise jaunt through the southwestern countryside, packing booze and drugs and guns and gusto. Along the way, there is some frolicking, and even a mock wedding. A confrontation with police happens. A few courtroom dramas. Betrayal. Then a she said/she said moment of derisionor, rather, divisionoccurs. And, for the hell of it, toss in a bit of what some described as black magic and witchcraft.

Okay, so maybe its not your typical true-crime story.

Beyond that scandalous, drama-inviting headline, however, this book is the story of two young women caught in a whirlwind of dysfunction and chronic drug use, drifting closer together, until one day they collide in an avalanche of lust, craziness, and murder. What starts out as an unexpected affairone of the girls was dating males at the time; the other had a child with a manturns into a case of who killed whom, why, and how an overly aggressive sexual appetite is sometimes confused with love. More important, it is a cautionary tale of teens growing up in a world brimming with very little adult supervision and chaos. Their lives were on a crash course, with no one there to direct or steer them away from imminent disaster. It doesnt excuse the behavior or the terrible crimes committed along the way, but it does explain that all-important, ubiquitous question I get asked more than any other: Why does someone commit murder? Here, in this case, youre going to hear from one of the girls involvedand her story will eventually produce answers you likely did not expect.