Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death.
Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack—the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy's case…only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy's system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy's first husband also have been the victim of Chaz's treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and POISONED LOVE.
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"Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, Kathy's husband, Chuck died of an apparent stroke. A short time later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband when he was in the hospital. Three years later, Kathy died due to a heart attack and it was expected that a stressful political campaign was to blame. But an autopsy later revealed the presence of a powerful, paralyzing ER drug in Kathy's blood. This is a shocking true-crime story of a family ripped apart by lies after love. "
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Julie (5 out of 5 stars)