Dance with the Devil, David Bagby
Dance with the Devil, David Bagby
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Dance with the Devil
A Memoir of Murder and Loss

Author: David Bagby

Narrator: Allan Edwards

Unabridged: 9 hr 34 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Lantern Audio

Published: 09/15/2016


Synopsis

Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child. In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest, buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable? But Andrew's murder was only the first in a string of tragic events. The chief suspect for Andrew's murder was his ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner, whom was also a doctor. Obsessive and unstable, Shirley Turner lied to the police and fled to her family home in Newfoundland before she could be arrested. While fending off extradition efforts by U.S. law enforcement, she announced she was pregnant with Andrew's son, Zachary. The Bagbys hoping to gain custody of Zachary moved to Newfoundland and began a long, drawn-out battle in court and with Canadian social services to protect their grandson from the woman who had almost certainly murdered their son. Then, in August 2003, Shirley Turner killed herself and the one-year-old Zachary by jumping into the Atlantic Ocean. Dance with the Devil is a eulogy for a dead son, an elegy for lives cut tragically short, and a castigation of a broken system.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Tiffany

Having watched the documentary about this case, I really needed to read this book. Written by the father of the murder victim, you learn all the details that led up to his son's murder and the preventable murder of his grandson. What he and his wife went through is truly disgusting. While they could......more

Goodreads review by Ali

It pains me to award only two stars to a book written by David Bagby, but I want to use the Goodreads' ranking system more accurately. And this book was... okay. To clarify, David and Kate Bagby are five-star people, and Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father is a five-star documentary. I e......more

Goodreads review by Melanie

After helping Kurt Kuene with his documentary Dear Zachary: A Letter from a father to his Son I was honored that David Bagby sent me his book as a thank you. There is only so much that Kurt could fit in an hour and a half and I learned so much more by reading things from David's own words. The Bagby......more