Redbone, Ron Stodghill
Redbone, Ron Stodghill
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Redbone
The Millionaire and the Gold Digger

Author: Ron Stodghill

Narrator: JD Jackson

Unabridged: 7 hr 16 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 09/18/2018


Synopsis

Lance Herndon was at the top of his game in 1996. At age forty-one he was a self-made millionaire, the owner of Access, Inc., a successful information-systems consulting company. As a prominent member of Atlanta's young, wealthy, and powerful set, he was surrounded by black Atlanta's "beautiful people." But when he failed to show up for work one day, friends and family started to worry. Their worry soon turned to horror when he was found murdered in his own home, his head smashed in—in what appeared to be either an act of jealousy-fueled rage or a seedier sex crime. With a laundry list of ex-wives and lovers, competitors, critics, and admirers in hand, detectives had to break through the city's upper crust to discover his killer. Journalist Ron Stodghill tells the riveting, true story of this investigation.Part investigative thriller, part sociological commentary, Redbone offers a truly intriguing story that channels insight into one of America's great metropolises.

About Ron Stodghill

Award-winning journalist Ron Stodghill has worked for the New York Times, Time, Business Week, and Savoy, for which he was editor in chief. He was a Nieman Fellow at Harvard University. Stodghill is the author of Redbone, and his work has been anthologized in Brotherman and has appeared in Slate, Essence, Black Enterprise, and Ebony. He is also a professor at Johnson C. Smith University, an HBCU in Charlotte, North Carolina, where he lives with his wife and three sons.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Fishface on October 22, 2016

This was a pretty good read about a case that was at once totally average and really, really unusual. The motive and method were nothing to write home about, but the man who was murdered was a self-made IT millionaire living in a custom-built palace in Atlanta, GA, where he wined, dined, and distrib......more

Goodreads review by Georgia on August 06, 2007

This book can become tedious reading if you don't like investigative news writing. Yet, it gives a good and interesting look at the events it covers. Without this book the rich details of this case would have been forgotten.......more

Goodreads review by Michelle on June 30, 2024

The story of the murder of Lance Herndon by Dionne Baugh. Lance was a tech mogul in Atlanta who made a lot of money and went through women like clothes. That all caught up to him when he met Dionne. Dionne was much younger than Lance and an immigrant from Jamaica. Dionne’s goal was to find a rich ma......more

Goodreads review by Allie on January 01, 2020

I enjoyed it. It was like reading a true crime documentary.......more

Goodreads review by Courtney on April 29, 2012

I didn't realize the book was non fiction until the very end when I actually read it. I was getting strong hints to that fact in the last several chapters dealing with the trial of the woman accused of the murder which definitely was told like a listing of events instead of a narrative. This is impo......more