Blood Will Tell, Carlton Smith
Blood Will Tell, Carlton Smith
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Blood Will Tell
A Shocking True Story of Marriage, Murder, and Fatal Family Secrets

Author: Carlton Smith

Narrator: Donna Postel

Unabridged: 11 hr 36 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download (DRM Protected)

Published: 12/12/2017


Synopsis

They Were The Perfect Family...For twenty years, Ken and Kristine Fitzhugh and their two sons had lived lives of comfortable middle-class normality in the university town of Palo Alto, California. Then came the shocking news that Kristine Fitzhugh was dead, the victim of a terrible accident.... By the time the Palo Alto Police Department looked closer at the death of Kristine Fitzhugh, there could be only one conclusion. Someone had murdered Kristine in her own home, inflicting a series of horrific blows to the back of her head, and then cleaned up the mess to make it look like an accident. Who would do such a thing? Protesting his innocence, Kenneth Fitzhugh was arrested and tried for the murder of his wife. And as the case progressed, one by one, the hidden secrets of the Fitzhugh family came spilling out....

About Carlton Smith

Carlton Smith (1947–2011) was a prizewinning crime reporter and the author of dozens of books. Born in Riverside, California, Smith graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, with a degree in history. He began his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times and arrived at the Seattle Times in 1983, where he and Tomas Guillen covered the Green River Killer case for more than a decade. They were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative reporting in 1988 and published the New York Times bestseller The Search for the Green River Killer (1991) ten years before investigators arrested Gary Ridgway for the murders. Smith went on to write twenty-five true crime books, including Killing Season (1994), Cold-Blooded (2004), and Dying for Love (2011).


Reviews

It was okay. It got a star off for nothing showing the verdict or having the sentencing portion. I enjoy that portion (the judges pronouncements, sentencing, victim impact statements, etc.) It's implied that they found him guilty of second degree murder but we aren't even told if that's what he got.......more

Goodreads review by Andrew on March 28, 2020

What might you ask have the following two dates in common, May 2000 and December 2001. Well, on these dates two murders took place in America. So what is unusual about that? What is unusual or uncanny is the similarity between the two. Both were staircase deaths where in each case the decedent was t......more