Toxic Love, Tomas Guillen
Toxic Love, Tomas Guillen
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Toxic Love
The Shocking True Story of the First Murder by Cancer

Author: Tomas Guillen

Narrator: Peter Lerman

Unabridged: 7 hr 33 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 06/30/2020

Synopsis

Omaha, Nebraska, 1978.

Sandy Johnson was in shock. Her husband, Duane, and young daughter, Sherrie, were violently ill when word arrived that her infant nephew just died of mysterious causes. Days earlier, the entire family was happy, healthy, and living the American dream. Now they were at the center of a terrifying medical crisis.

Duane soon died in a condition unlike anything the doctors had ever seen. As they raced to discover what disease or toxin could have done so much damage so quickly, Lt. Foster Burchard of the Omaha police began to suspect foul play. Sandy herself became a primary suspect, as did her ex-boyfriend Steven Harper—a man prone to violence who never got over their breakup.

In Toxic Love, investigative reporter and true crime author Tomás Guillén offers a detailed and vivid account of this baffling case from the day of the poisoning to the harrowing trial and the murderer's eventual suicide on death row.

About Tomas Guillen

Tomas Guillen is a professor in the communication department at Seattle University and coauthor of the New York Times bestseller The Search for the Green River Killer. Raised in El Paso, Texas, Guillen graduated from the University of Arizona with a degree in journalism and began his career as a reporter for the Tucson Citizen. He joined the staff of the Seattle Times in 1980 and spent more than a decade covering the Green River Killer case with Carlton Smith. They were Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative reporting in 1988 and published The Search for the Green River Killer a decade before investigators arrested Gary Ridgway for the murders. In 1995, Guillen's articles on crime laboratories won the Silver Gavel award from the American Bar Association. He is the author of Toxic Love and Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River Murders, and often is asked to discuss law enforcement and criminal justice issues on CNN, Fox, and Good Morning America.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Chrissie on August 30, 2024

Murder by cancer? This has to be a unique story! A horrific method, and thankfully the mystery was solved.......more

Goodreads review by Emily on February 21, 2021

The story itself is very interesting, but the book isn't especially good. One of the most obvious issues, at least in the ebook version, is that the book has a decent number of errors. It's not unreadable, but it is a little distracting. They didn't really affect my reading too much except at one poi......more

Goodreads review by Jane on February 16, 2008

A good read, very sad. These cases most likely would never have been classified as homicides were it not for a nurse working at 2 hospitals that happened to come in contact with both patients & alerted authorities. There are many sad aspects in this book, not only the murders.......more

Goodreads review by MM Suarez on January 18, 2022

I have read quite a bit of true crime but I have to say this is one of the most interesting cases I have come across, from the unusual method used to murder to the complete lack of focus and care of the killer, that while having a specific target chose to put so many others in harms way. It also mad......more

Goodreads review by Laura on August 14, 2024

if garbage true crime books from the 90s have millions of fans, i am one of them. if garbage true crime books from the 90s have one fan, than I'M THAT ONE. if garbage true crime books from the 90s have no fans, that means i'm dead.......more

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