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Toxic Love

The Shocking True Story of the First Murder by Cancer

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Toxic Love

By: Tomas Guillen
Narrated by: Peter Lerman
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Summary

Omaha, Nebraska, 1978.

Sandy Johnson was in shock. Her husband, Duane, and young daughter, Sherrie, were violently ill when word arrived that her infant nephew just died of mysterious causes. Days earlier, the entire family was happy, healthy, and living the American dream. Now they were at the center of a terrifying medical crisis.

Duane soon died in a condition unlike anything the doctors had ever seen. As they raced to discover what disease or toxin could have done so much damage so quickly, Lt. Foster Burchard of the Omaha police began to suspect foul play. Sandy herself became a primary suspect, as did her ex-boyfriend Steven Harper - a man prone to violence who never got over their breakup.

In Toxic Love, investigative reporter and true crime author Tomás Guillen offers a detailed and vivid account of this baffling case from the day of the poisoning to the harrowing trial and the murderer's eventual suicide on death row.

©1995 Tomás Guillén (P)2020 Tantor
Crime Murder True Crime Exciting Forensics
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This story is so sad, broken people causing more & more brokenness & pain to others. So many victims.
It is well told, laying the foundations for understanding just a little how something like this could happen.

So very tragic

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