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Crime Scene

Megan Gilbert, fifteen, stood before a mirror in her parents second-story master bathroom, pulling a brush through her long brown hair. Shortly after 5:15 P.M ., she heard a commotion coming from outside, on Hill Street. A male voice shouted, Get out! Get out!

Startled, she spun around and peered out a window. Across the street and a few yards down the block, she could see a red compact car parked about eight feet from the curb, and a black vehicle angled in front of it. A man stood at the passenger door of the red vehicle, pointing something at the person seated inside. Megan drew a sharp breath when she realized the object could be a handgun. A sudden muted pop, much like a distant firecracker, followed by more identical bursts, verified Megans fears. She rushed into the adjoining master bedroom, where the view was better.

The agitated gunman had circled to the other side of the red car. He stopped just outside the drivers open window.

The crack of yet another gunshot, perhaps two, reached Megans ears.

Megan grabbed a telephone and dialed 911.

A radio call was sent out by the 911 dispatcher at 5:23 P.M . Possible shooting in the fourteen hundred block of Hill Street. Two reported victims down.

IF I CANT HAVE YOU, NO ONE CAN

DON LASSETER

PINNACLE BOOKS
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Copyright 2006 by Don Lasseter

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Table of Contents

F OREWORD

Love is the most dangerous game of all. The eternal quest for romance can be a treacherous path littered with frustration, muddied with tears, and leading to disaster. Its a rare person who hasnt made that journey and endured the agony of a shattered love.

An attorney described it from the viewpoint of a cuckold: For people who have been in love, you realize the pain and sleepless nights, the aches... day in, day out... I cannot take it anymore... the woman that I want to have kids with... she had a boyfriend.

Nearly everyone knows the lyrics of a song, from Elvis to Usher, that fits their own personal heartbreak. Certainly, some seekers of a blissful union may find roses and rapture along the way, but too many others discover nothing but painful misery.

And for some, the tragic trail ends in bloody, violent death.

Homicide detectives know that the usual suspects in murders of women are husbands or boyfriends. FBI statistics show why. They counted 14,408 murders committed in the United States in 2003, and stated that 3,215 of the victims were females. Of these slain women, 573 were killed by their husbands and 464 were murdered by boyfriends. This means an alarming 32 percent of female victims were killed by their mates or lovers.

As the author of several true crime books, I have frequently been asked if I have discovered any identifiable behavior patterns or social influences common in murderers. I cannot give a definitive answer. Psychologists and criminologists have examined this conundrum in countless probes but found few factors to reliably predict violent homicide. I think they should focus their microscopes on this matter of love.

I have seen defense attorneys seize the issue of love, or the absence of it, and weave it into the abuse excuse. The clients criminal conduct, they claim, was caused by a traumatic childhood devoid of love. Mental health experts are called in to testify that physical and emotional mistreatment combined with an unfulfilled desire for affection led to the defendants sociopathic behavior.

In some cases, it might be true. One serial killer described to me how his beautiful but amoral mother, from the backwoods of Kentucky, deserted him. He spoke of his desperate need for any sign of maternal love. When they were reunited, he received it in the most bizarre form. Soon after his thirteenth birthday, she injected him with heroin and sexually seduced him! Another man convicted of murder, who kept his female victims body in a freezer three years, was allegedly scarred by his mothers coldness and obsessive protection from anything involving romance or sex during his formative years.

On the other hand, most of us know someone who endured painful formative years, yet managed to avoid a life of crime.

I believe the major difference in people who overcome traumatic beginnings and wind up leading lawful lives, and those who eventually turn to murder, does often relate to love. In numerous cases, I have observed that most men who kill never felt they were truly loved by anyone, while individuals who overcame fractious relations with their families still knew deep down that their parents or other close relatives actually did love them.

The other side of the love factor leading to murder stems from jealousy and rage at the discovery of betrayal, or even suspicion that the beloved mate may be straying. When a love triangle is exposed, the betrayed individual, in some cases, cannot stifle blind fury and the need for revenge. Since emotional frenzy is not grounded in logic, cuckolded mates often decide that the only solution is to kill the unfaithful partners new lover. And all too often, a burst of deadly wrath results in slaughtering both the loved one and the unfortunate suitor. Its the old story: If I cant have you, no one can.

For some time, Ive wanted to explore the complexity of misbegotten love leading to murder. The case in this story contains all the elements and more. This book departs somewhat from the usual formula of true crime accounts by not only chronicling the perpetrator and the two victims histories, but by detailing the adventures of a fourth key characters poignant, humorous, tragic, and incredible metamorphosis.

If I Cant Have You... traces the lives of four people along their paths of love, romance, betrayal, adventure, and heartbreak. At the point where the travels of these fourone woman, two men, and later a third manreached a confluence, the outcome produced a tidal wave of tragic suffering. The survivors roles in the matrix of life and death were changed forever.

Don Lasseter, 2006

C HAPTER 1

Hes Going to Kill Me

Turning to the first page of a blank spiral notebook, Sarah, age twenty-one, took a deep breath to control her trembling hands. She entered 3/27/03 in the upper right corner, then began pouring her emotional anguish into the new journal. On blue-lined sheets, Sarah neatly printed words revealing her torment over a convoluted love affair. In sentence after sentence, she spoke of fear that clouded every waking moment, gripping her because of the mans repeated threats:

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