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Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love

Cold Kill: The True Story of a Murderous Love


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From Jack Olsen, the New York Times bestselling author known as "the dean of true crime," comes a shattering portrait of a crime rooted not in rage or madness, but in something far more chilling: cold calculation.

On the night of June 19, 1982, respected Houston attorney James Campbell and his wife Virginia were shot to death in their River Oaks home while their grandchildren slept nearby. No signs of struggle. No forced entry. Just two bodies and a daughter who sobbed at the funeral, then immediately began removing valuables from her parents' house and demanding her share of the estate. When asked what should be done with her two young boys, Cindy Campbell Ray told her family to take them to an orphanage.

Everyone suspected Cindy. No one could prove it.

What investigators didn't yet know was that Cindy had spent weeks manipulating David West, a troubled ex-Marine who loved her desperately. She fed him fabricated stories of abuse, convincing him that killing her parents was not only justified but necessary. Dressed in camouflage, the two slipped into the Campbell home in the dead of night and executed the plan with brutal precision. Then Cindy walked away, leaving David holding both the gun and his love for a woman who had never loved him back.

For years, Houston's top homicide detectives could get nowhere. The crime had been too carefully planned, the principal suspect too composed and convincing in her grief. The case cracked only when a bold young private investigator named Kim Paris was brought in to do what the police could not. Paris embedded herself in David's life, earning his trust over months of careful intimacy, and slowly drew out the truth. David West eventually pleaded guilty and testified against Cindy Ray. Both were sentenced to life in prison.

With his signature psychological depth and journalistic precision, Jack Olsen explores how a daughter could order the execution of her own parents, how a man could kill in the name of love, and how one investigator's nerve cracked a case that had defeated everyone else.

A woman who felt nothing. A man who felt everything. And a love story that ended in murder.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781091813038
  • Publisher: Independently Published
  • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
  • Height: 229 mm
  • No of Pages: 450
  • Returnable: N
  • Sub Title: The True Story of a Murderous Love
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1091813035
  • Publisher Date: 27 Mar 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Spine Width: 28 mm
  • Weight: 589 gr


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