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Book Review of Dead Center : The Shocking True Story of a Murder on Snipe Mountain

Dead Center : The Shocking True Story of a Murder on Snipe Mountain
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Newly wed John Bruce Dodson's first hunting trip turned out to be his last. Struck by three rifle bullets-one through his chest, dead center-Dodson died high on Colorado's beautiful Snipe Mountain, one among the hundreds of annual hunting accident victims in America. Or so said his wife of three months, Janice, a crack markswoman who happened to gain half a million dollars in life insurance. Something never seemed right about that story to D.A. Frank Daniels. And when he learned that Janice had remarried-and convince her new spouse to take out a valuable life insurance policy-he and his investigators had to race against time to substantiate their suspicions and prove them to a jury.