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Dance with the Devil

A Memoir of Murder and Loss

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Dance with the Devil

By: David Bagby
Narrated by: Allan Edwards
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Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest true crime memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system's failure to prevent the death of a child.

In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest, buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable? But Andrew's murder was only the first in a string of tragic events.

The chief suspect for Andrew's murder was his ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner? Whom was also a doctor. Obsessive and unstable, Shirley Turner lied to the police and fled to her family home in Newfoundland before she could be arrested. While fending off extradition efforts by U.S. law enforcement, she announced she was pregnant with Andrew's son, Zachary. The Bagbys hoping to gain custody of Zachary moved to Newfoundland and began a long, drawn-out battle in court and with Canadian social services to protect their grandson from the woman who had almost certainly murdered their son. Then, in August 2003, Shirley Turner killed herself and the one-year-old Zachary by jumping into the Atlantic Ocean.

Dance with the Devil is a eulogy for a dead son, an elegy for lives cut tragically short, and a castigation of a broken system.

©2007 David Bagby (P)2016 ListenUp Production, LLC
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If this was fiction we would say the reader will be on the edge of their seat as the plot holds us with its twists and turns But you couldn’t make this stuff up. Superficially the story line is riveting; .. sad, .. but riveting. The fact that it is a true story, written by the parents of a much loved young man, and grandparents of a pure, innocent toddler, adds a further dimension; heart felt emotion, from the family’s deeply personal, perspective. The third layer is the incisive intelligence & rarely seen common sense, of the author/s as they describe nay analyse the institutions that failed their boys. Sad true story brilliantly written. A Must Read.

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