Worth More Dead, Ann Rule
Worth More Dead, Ann Rule
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Worth More Dead
And Other True Cases

Author: Ann Rule

Narrator: Laural Merlington

Abridged: 5 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 08/27/2013

Synopsis

Why would a man kill his lover's husband and then his wife, the woman who fought successfully to have him paroled from prison? Why would he risk arrest by kidnapping the child of another woman who adored him?Because they were…Worth More DeadA cold case reopened—and solved—with dogged police work and new evidence. One of the shocking true crimes of passion and greed from Ann Rule's Crime Files.Former Marine sergeant and judo instructor Roland Pitre Jr. claimed it was all an elaborate plan to win back his wife's love - it wasn't supposed to end with her dead body in the trunk of a car. Nearly twenty years later, he acknowledged that he had hired someone to kill his estranged wife in 1988, though his alleged excuse for why a monstrous "mistake" happened is as shocking and convoluted as the crime itself. Eventually, he was charged with first-degree murder in the long-unsolved death of Cheryl Pitre, after a mysterious witness betrayed Pitre to save his own skin. Tracing back the dark and bloody path of Pitre's life, two generations of detectives found a chain of brutal and terrifying crimes by a man who manipulated the courts and prisons to walk free.

About Ann Rule

Ann Rae Stackhouse was born in Lowell, MI in 1931. Her mother taught school, specializing in developmentally disabled children, and her father was a coach. Ann was in law enforcement in her young adult years, as was many in her family. She received various degrees from different colleges and universities, including studying creative writing, criminology, and psychology at University of Washington.

Ann's marriage, and eventual divorce changed her last name to Rule, which she keeps as her author name. Her extensive education and experience as a police woman gave her the perfect credentials to become regarded by many as the foremost true crime writer in America, setting the standards for the genre. For example, while she was volunteering at a suicide hotline center in Seattle in 1971, she met a work study student by the name of Ted Bundy, not realizing until a few years later that it was the same Bundy responsible for a series of murders. To her, he was kind, solicitous, and empathetic. She wrote her first book about him, considered one of the definitive biographies of Bundy.......The Stranger Beside Me (written under her own name, rather than the previously used pen name).

Rule has been a full-time crime writer since 1969, and has published 33 books and 1400 articles, mostly on criminal cases.

Today, she teaches seminars to law enforcement groups, a certified instructor in many subjects such as: Serial Murder, Sadistic Sociopaths, Women Who Kill, and High Profile Offenders. She has consulted with the FBI at their headquarters in Quantico, VA tracking a system to help identify and trap serial killers. She testimonies twice before the Senate Judiciary Sub-committee on victim's rights and the danger of serial killers.

Simon and Schuster currently have Rule under contract. Eight of her books have been made into TV movies, and more are in the works. Ann is in active support groups for victims of violent crimes and their families, in programs to help battered and abused women, and support group.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Ashley on August 26, 2020

I had high hopes for this book because I’ve loved everything else I’ve read by Ann Rule but this one just fell flat for me. I didn’t feel invested in any of the cases and that made it a drag to get through because I didn’t particularly care what happened. I know that sounds terrible because these ar......more

Goodreads review by Jenn on March 23, 2018

Ann tells s good true crime story. These are shorter stories that pack a wallop of a punch. They may not be well publicized murder tales but they’ll stay with me for quite awhile in the recesses of my mind. Murder and mayhem, sometimes it’s hard to believe all the evidence in these cases by you know......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on January 06, 2017

*"Worth More Dead": the bizarre and appalling career of Roland Pitre, who never liked to get his own hands dirty, but who conspired to kill his lover's husband (then turned state's evidence to testify against her, even though there doesn't really seem to be convincing evidence that she was the perso......more

Goodreads review by Jill on July 03, 2010

Another not super well-written book, but interesting enough (in the way that the trashy cover makes it look) to keep you going. Three tragic stories in this one. Spouse murder, and brutally done. I realized part-way through the first story that I'd already read this one. She has a few words she over......more

Goodreads review by Mateo on December 18, 2020

The Crime Files #10 compiles riveting and chilling true cases that seem to be related under the headline "Worth More Dead". Every case is unique on its own way and develops a simple and easy to follow prose that make this a quick and worthwhile read. This is no bedside reading (for some readers that......more

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