| Murder on a Lonely Road: A Beauty Queen, a Privileged Killer, and a Twenty-Five Year Search for Justice Contributor(s): Pawlaczyk, George (Author), Hundsdorfer, Beth (Author) |
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ISBN: 0425250342 ISBN-13: 9780425250341 Publisher: Berkley Books OUR PRICE: $8.99 Product Type: Mass Market Paperbound Published: September 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - Serial Killers - Social Science | Criminology |
| Dewey: 364.152 |
| Physical Information: 1" H x 4.2" W x 7.4" (0.40 lbs) 336 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1980's - Geographic Orientation - Missouri - Chronological Period - 1990's - Chronological Period - 21st Century |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: A brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri--and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice... On June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating in a nearby lake. Sheriff Dwight McNiel vowed to catch Jackie's killer, however long it took. His prime suspect: local rich kid Gerald Carnahan. But despite suspicions, the evidence never managed to add up, and Carnahan slipped away again and again. Throughout the next two decades, multiple other women went missing, some murdered, some never found. Fearful residents believed that a murderous bogeyman was connected to all these crimes. Carnahan's conviction on the attempted kidnapping charge of another young woman brought his name into the mix over and over again--but all of the cases remained unsolved for decades, until a highway patrol sergeant sent DNA from the Jackie Johns's murder for testing and came up with a quadrillions-to-one match to Carnahan. This is the true account of a murderer who thought he was beyond punishment, and the lawmen who would not relent until justice was finally done. |
