Publisher Description
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania state trooper witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers, "I just killed everybody." Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery. In the home of Michael's ex-girlfriend, Denise Mehri, they find four bodies that had been stabbed repeatedly with a knife: Denise, on the kitchen floor; her grandfather, in his wheelchair; her neighbor; and her father, in a room with a blood-smeared obscenity painted on the wall. How could anyone do something so horrendous? Michael had already been convicted of murder, sent to prison when he was only eighteen. Despite several incidents of misconduct during his time in prison, he was found suitable for parole shortly after his minimum sentence lapsed. But this time, his deadly rampage would not be so easily pardoned.
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About the Authors
Colin McEvoy
is a reporter for the Express-Times, a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. He and his
wife, Lynn Olanoff, covered the Rhonda Smith murder case extensively and it was
during a jailhouse interview with them that Mary Jane Fonder first acknowledged
responsibility for her crime. They wrote about the Fonder case in the St.
Martin’s True Crime book, Love
Me or Else. Colin
graduated from East Stroudsburg University in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania, and currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Lynn Olanoff
is a reporter for the
Express-Times, a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. She and
her husband, Colin McEvoy, covered the Rhonda Smith murder case extensively and
it was during a jailhouse interview with them that Mary Jane Fonder first
acknowledged responsibility for her crime. They wrote about the Fonder case in
the St. Martin’s True Crime book, Love
Me or Else. Lynn is a
graduate of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and currently resides in
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
About Roger Wayne
Roger Wayne served in the Air Force as a radio and television broadcast journalist in South Korea and won several awards before obtaining a BA degree in communications and journalism. He is an actor living in New York, narrating audiobooks, working on independent film projects, performing off Broadway, and auditioning for major network shows.