A Rage to Kill
Authors: Ann Rule
CRITICS PRAISE ANN RULE’S
NEW YORK TIMES
BESTSELLERS
THE END OF THE DREAM
AND OTHER TRUE CASES
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 5
“In the hands of a master true crime writer like Ann Rule, their stories take on a poignancy that goes far beyond mere cops-’n’-robbers stuff. Without resorting to psychobabble, Rule tells us—through exhaustively detailed interviews with lovers, friends, and families—what led three such talented men to such tragic ends.”
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Seattle Times-Post Intelligencer
“Ann Rule’s true-life crime stories read better than most fiction murder plots.”
—
St. Petersburg Times
BITTER HARVEST
“True crime queen Rule continues her reign at the top of the genre with another tension-filled, page-turning chronology and analysis of a psychopath in action. . . . It is Rule’s expert attention to detail that makes this Medea-incarnate story so compelling. . . . Through exhaustive research, Rule slowly reveals the widening chinks in Green’s psychic armor as she fails in her first marriage, then in various attempts to become a practicing physician, and then in her emotionless marriage with her second husband. By the time readers reach the end of Rule’s gripping saga of sin and murder most foul, they will understand at least partly the roots of Green’s madness.”
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Publishers Weekly
(starred review)
The sensational #1 bestseller!
DEAD BY SUNSET
“A cast of characters like this would provide fascinating material for any capable reporter. . . . Ann Rule is more than capable. The author . . . admirably recounts this labyrinthine tale . . . [and] brings to her work the passion, the prodigious research and the narrative skill necessary to create suspense.”
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The New York Times Book Review
IN THE NAME OF LOVE
AND OTHER TRUE CASES
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 4
“Arresting, that’s what it is. . . . Ann Rule keeps finding true crime stories that somehow fell through the national press cracks, and retelling them in red-hot-off-the-police-blotter style.”
—New York
Daily News
A FEVER IN THE HEART
AND OTHER TRUE CASES
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 3
“Like a fine police reporter, she digs and digs and recounts the stories behind the stories of obsession, betrayal and murder. In this field, Rule rules.”
—New York
Daily News
YOU BELONG TO ME
AND OTHER TRUE CASES
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 2
“Ann Rule . . . dissects the dark heart of a killer with surgical precision. Nobody does it better.”
—Edna Buchanan,
Miami Herald
A ROSE FOR HER GRAVE
AND OTHER TRUE CASES
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 1
“Ann Rule . . . has a great knack for horrific detail.”
—New York
Daily News
Ann Rule’s #1
New York Times
bestselling novel
POSSESSION
“A gripping, powerful and terrifying novel. . . . The author spares the beholder nothing at all.”
—James Dickey
“Possession
kept me writhing in its grip from beginning to end.”
—John Saul
EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED
“Yet another true crime triumph for Ann Rule....A magnificently constructed book.”
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Washington Post Book World
“Ms. Rule . . . now turns her devastatingly accurate insight to the twisted mind of a modern-day Southern belle. A measure of how well she succeeds is the feeling that came over me after reading just a few paragraphs about Pat Allanson. I wanted to reach into the book and strangle her.”
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The New York Times Book Review
IF YOU REALLY LOVED ME
“Meticulous reporting ...the characters are fascinating.”
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People
Books by Ann Rule
Bitter Harvest
Dead by Sunset
Everything She Ever Wanted
If You Really Loved Me
The Stranger Beside Me
Possession
Small Sacrifices
A Rage to Kill and Other True Cases
Ann Rule���s Crime Files: Vol. 6
The End of the Dream and Other True Cases
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 5
In the Name of Love and Other True Cases
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 4
A Fever in the Heart and Other True Cases
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 3
You Belong to Me and Other True Cases
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 2
A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases
Ann Rule’s Crime Files: Vol. 1
The names of some individuals in this book have been changed. Such names are indicated by an asterisk (*) the first time each appears in the narrative.
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To my friends, a thousand homicide detectives from at least a hundred different departments around America. For almost thirty years, I have watched them work under circumstances that most people could never imagine. When the rest of us are enjoying holidays, spending time with our families and sleeping, they are often out in the field, slogging through rain, mud, snow, and sometimes blood. They are coping with the devastation that violence can do to the human body. They come to know and care for the victims they never met in life, and they strive to find who took their lives away even if it means working twenty-four to thirty-six hours without sleep. They are skilled, dedicated, dogged, tough, perceptive, tender, inquisitive, compassionate, hard-nosed, meticulous, and sometimes even clairvoyant. We all hope we will never need their services, but if we should they will do their best to deliver justice. Yes, the homicide guys are sometimes full of black humor—but I have also seen most of them cry.
And, finally, a salute to Detective Sergeant Don Cameron, thirty years with the Seattle Police Department’s Homicide Unit, on his retirement. A betterhomicide detective never served. And to Chuck Wright, who also retires in 1999 after three decades with the Washington State Department of Corrections. Chuck has helped rehabilitate the thousands of people who have been assigned to his caseload, and he has also worked tirelessly for victims’ rights.
With ten different cases, you can imagine how many different police departments and prosecutors’ offices I interviewed and how many people have helped me put this anthology of case files together. I want to thank the following detectives: Steve O’Leary, John Nordlund, Gene Ramirez, Ed Striedinger, Steve Kilburg, Rob Blanco, Don Redmond, Paul Barclift, Dwight Caron, K. C. Jones, Dick Nelson, Richard Schoener, Keith May, Ted Forrester, Ted Fonis, Dick Sanford, Don Cameron, Dick Reed, Benny DePalmo, Duane Homan, Billy Baughman, Roy Moran, Ivan Beeson, Wayne Dorman, Jerry Yates, Bill Karban, John Boren, George Helland, Bob Fox, Len Randall, Rolf Grunden, and Ken Schnorr.
Many of these men have retired; some have died. They all solved seemingly impossible cases.
I also thank journalists Carol Ostrom, Eric Lacitis, and Eric Sorensen. And my friends, researchers, and first readers: Gerry Brittingham Hay, Barbara Easton, Donna Anders, Mike Rule, and Leslie Rule Wagner.
To my work crew, who are finally planting flowers and building decks where there was once only mud: Don White, Dave Bailey, and Larry Ellington.
As always, I am grateful for my agents, Joan and Joe Foley, and my editors at Pocket Books and Simon & Schuster, Emily Heckman, Fred Hills, and Burton Beals (who continue to remind me ever so tactfully that I am not yet the only writer in the world who never makes a mistake).
And I thank my readers. First, I thank you for buying and reading my books. Second, I bless you for your letters. They make me smile, make me think, and give me new subjects for future books. You can reach me on the Internet at www.annrules.com (my Web page) and at P.O. Box 98846, Seattle, Washington 98198. Sometimes I can’t answer my mail personally—but I know you would rather have a new book to read than a letter. I
do
answer all truly urgent mail. If you would like a copy of my sporadic—but free—newsletter, send me your address at one of the above locations.