by Rachel Howard (2005)
Ten-year-old Rachel Howard woke to the sight of blood on the hallway carpet and a glimpse of her father clutching his stabbed throat. Stan Howard died minutes later, and his bizarre small-town murder was never solved. Rachel's father was a laid-back, handsome man with no known enemies. Faced with her family's shock, Rachel coped by keeping silent and trying to pretend the murder had never happened. Seventeen years later, Rachel attempts to uncover what happened that night. Finally reconnecting with her father's family, she sorts through their memories of his death and presses the less-than-helpful detectives. Still bewildered, she seeks the only other two people present at the murder: her former stepmother and stepbrother, neither of whom she has seen since her father's funeral. The result is a tender portrait of a father and an investigation of memory, truth, and how a family moves on.--From publisher description.
Stephen J. Rivele
An account of the shooting death of a San Fernando, California, police officer describes how two men--a drifter and a model student at New Mexico Institute of Technology, neither of whom knew each other--confessed to the crime Was made into an ABC Movie of the Week.
Jack Olsen
The New York Times bestselling author of Doc and Predator delivers a riveting true-crime account of one mother's determination to bring her daughter's murderer to justice, and to rebuild her life after the suicide of her devastated husband.
Frank Jones
The book was absorbing but too little detail is given for each of the cases. The author tends to be a bit biased in his reporting. Overall a chilling and quick read for true crime fans.
Alva Johnston
Biographies of Addison Mizner who was born in Benicia, California in 1872 and his brother, Wilson, born in 1876 in the same place.