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I am deeply grateful to Police Chief Ronal Serpas of the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department and to Don Aaron, his public information manager. It was through their help that I gained unfettered access to members of the department investigating the Janet March case.

I especially want to thank Sergeant Pat Postiglione and Detective Bill Pridemore, the two members of the elite Cold Case unit of the homicide squad whose mission was to bring closure to the investigation. Thanks go to Captain Mickey Miller and Detective Brad Corcoran for being so gracious with their time in speaking with me. And I thank Amy Raines on Don Aarons staff for her invaluable assistance in providing many of the photographs for this book.

I am forever grateful to lawyers John Herbison, Fletcher Long, Ed Fowlkes, and Bill Massey for accommodating me throughout the writing of this book and giving me down-to-earth remembrances of events. They were simply terrific. Both John and Fletcher spent much time with me reconstructing key points of the case, and I am deeply appreciative of their time.

Janice Boone, the assistant to John Herbison, was anabsolute gem. She helped track down bits of information about the case and gave me what seemed like hundreds of hours of advice. I especially want to thank her.

To my dear friend and colleague, Larry Brintonthe host of WSMV-Channel 4s Word On The Street, whose stories capture the goings-on in Nashville and who shared with me his extensive ten year-plus history of the caseall I can say is thank you, Larry, for your constant help, for your humor, and for your words of advice and wisdom as the book was taking shape.

I would also like to thank reporter Dennis Ferrier for the interviews he conducted with Janets brother, Mark Levine, which were aired on WSMV-TV, and for allowing me to share them with our readers.

I extend my thanks to Susan Niland, the spokeswoman for the Nashville District Attorneys office. And my hat goes off to Tom Thurman, the Nashville district attorney, and to Katy Miller, the assistant DA, who together presented a dynamite case to the jury in the trial of Perry March. They brought the case to a successful conclusion by leaving nothing to chance.

My thanks also go to Dorinda Carter, spokesperson for the Tennessee Department of Corrections, who set me straight on Perrys deed once he got to the big house and got himself tangled up in trouble.

Thanks are extended to Sheila Burke of the Tennessean, who covered the story every day for her newspaper, for answering my many queries. A special thank-you also to Willie Stern, who wrote a series of articles for the Nashville Scene that gave a wealth of background about the case.

I also want to thank Carolyn Purcell and her colleagues at Court TV, and Kathleen OConnell at CBS News 48 Hours for their help.

In writing the book, I relied on interviews with former friends of Perry March and also with his college law professor, Donald Langevoort. Documents used in the book were provided by the Nashville police or were made available through court transcripts. I also utilized the pre-sentencereports of both Perry March and his father, Arthur, and was privy to the victim impact statements made by Janets parents, Lawrence and Carolyn Levine, and by her brother, Mark Levine. Most of the quotes attributed to Perry come either from interviews he gave to reporters over the ten years he was at large or when he testified at the probate hearing deposition.

In Mexico, I could not have made it without the able assistance of reporter Dale Palfrey and her wonderful husband, Wayne, the director of the Oak Hill School, which Perrys two children, Sammy and Tzipi, attended. Dale in particular came to my rescue several times and got me through the maze of Perrys six years in Ajijic, Mexico. Thanks to Dales journalistic nose, I met up with lawyer Henri Loridans, who set me straight on some of Perrys questionable business dealings down there. Joel Rasmusson was also very helpful, giving me an earful on Perrys life in Ajijic. He detailed Perrys exploits in the village and put me in touch with other expatriates who refused to be directly quoted in the bookthey still fear Perry, even though he is in prison. Thanks to Joel, I was able to interview Thomas Delangre on the record, who at one time was married to Carmen Rojas, Perrys second wife.

In the chapters on Perrys life in Mexico, I relied extensively on material found in a CD prepared by the Committee to Bring Perry March to Justice, called Perry Avram March: Master of Fraud and Corruption. The authors of that CD provided thirteen chapter reports, numbering over 150 typed pages, which were made available to authorities in Mexico and Nashville. Due to Perry Marchs continuing reach into Mexico, they have respectfully declined to be identified.

Steve Somerstein, my legal adviser and dear friend, provided frequent explanations of the law and was always available to answer a question. He was truly generous with his time, and I am more than appreciative and thank him dearly.

To my many newspaper colleagues at the Manhattan Criminal Court building press room in New York City, thankyou all for putting up with me and for the superb and invaluable assistance you gave as the book project progressed. Thanks go to Dareh Gregorian, Laura Italiano of the New York Post , Barbara Ross of the New York Daily News , Samuel Maull of the Associated Press, Juliet Papa of Radio Station WINS, Irene Cornell of WCBS Radio, Anemona Hartocollis of the New York Times, and Karen Freifeld of Bloomberg News. Also a thank-you to my former Reuters colleague, Ellen Wulfhorst.

I extend appreciation and thanks to my friends Patricia OConnell and Felice Cohen for reading portions of the manuscript and making suggestions. And a huge thank-you to my true-crime aficionado in Los Angeles, Yvonne Adler, for the extraordinary support she gave me as the book was being written.

I am particularly indebted to those who loved Janet Marchespecially her parents and her brother, who, painfully, shared their memories of her during the course of this caseand I thank them for being so open during their testimony.

I also want to thank film producer Sue Pollock, who introduced me to my agent Jane Dystel of Dystel & Goderich Literary Management. Jane graciouslyand quicklyopened the door for me at St. Martins Press. She is not only incredible but watched over the project like a mother hen. I truly appreciate her support and enthusiasm.

At St. Martins Press, the book was in the expert hands of Charles Spicer, Executive Editor of St. Martins True Crime Library, and my editor, Yaniv Soha, who, through shrewd editing, did an exceptional job poring over the manuscript to fine-tune the copy and make it sparkle, catching many typos. Thank you for your hard work.

Finally, thanks to my son, Christopher, for being there when I need you the most.

Jeanne King

Im Not the Monster Ive Been Made Out to Be

P erry March walked awkwardly toward the Northwest Airlines departure gate at Los Angeles International Airport, a white terry-cloth towel thrown over his hands to disguise the handcuffs binding his wrists. He was slovenly dressed. He had not shaved in almost a week.

If Perry was embarrassed by his unusual circumstances, he tried hard not to show it to the other passengers in the terminal, who hardly gave the unkempt man a glance. As he neared the Jetway, he felt the chain belt around his waist tighten. Thats when two six-foot detectives on either side of him abruptly grabbed him under the arms and hustled Perry down into the cabin. It was nearly 10 a.m. They were the last passengers to board the plane that morning of August 12, 2005, for what was to be for Perry the first leg of the flight to Memphis, then on to Nashville before reaching his final destinationa jail cell.

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