Ofelia F. (liamirel) reviewed on 5/26/2007 + 75 more book reviews

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TRUE CRIME STORY.

GIRL NEXT DOOR KATRINA MONTGOMERY, 20, WAS BLESSED WITH BEAUTY, BRAINS, AND A LOVING FAMILY. BUT INEXPLICABLY, SOMETHING DREW HER TO THE DARK SIDE. AS A TEEN, SHE HAD BEGUN SNEAKING OFF TO PARTY WITH A VIOLENT, DRUG ABUSING NEO NAZI GANG, AND SHE COULDN'T SEEM TO RESIST HER ATTRACTION TO TATTOOED SKINHEAD JUSTING MERRIMAN, 20, A BRUTAL, BOOZING SPEED FREAK. THE TWO KEPT UP A CORRESPONDENCE WHILE HE DID TIME FOR ASSAULTING A CORRECTIONAL OFFICER. WHEN MERRIMAN WAS RELEASED FROM JAIL, HE AND KATRINA RESUMED THEIR DANGEROUS RELATIONSHIP. ON THANKSGIVING WEEKEND, 1992, KATRINA WENT TO A GANG PARTY AND WOUND UP IN THE TOWNHOUSE WHERE MERRIMAN LIVED WITH HIS MOTHER. THERE, MERRIMAN RAPED KATRINA IN FRONT OF TWO OF HIS SKINHEAD BUDDIES. THEN HE STABBED HER IN THE NECK, BLUDGEONED HER WITH A WRENCH, AND FINALLY CUT HER THROAT. KATRINA'S BODY WASN'T FOUND. MEANWHILE, JUSTIN MERRIMAN CONTINUED HIS ORGY OF BRUTALITY AND RAPE, TERRORIZING HIS VICTIMS INTO KEEPING SILENT. HE ELUDED JUSTICE FOR SIX YEARS, UNTIL COPS ATTEMPTED TO STOP HIM FOR A MINOR TRAFFIC VIOLATION AND HE BOLTED. ON JANUARY 30, 1998, AFTER A WILD CHASE AND SEVEN HOUR STANDOFF INVOLVING A BOMB THREAT, VENTURA COUTNY SHERIFF'S OFFICERS ARRESTED HIM. AS POLICE DUG INTO THE COLD CASE OF KATRINA'S MURDER, THEY FOUND WHAT THEY NEEDED, ENOUGH FOR A JURY TO DECLARE THAT MERRIMAN SHOULD DIE BY LETHAL INJECTION IN CALIFORNIA'S SAN QUENTIN PRISON.

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