By Ron Stodghill
ISBN-10: 0060897228
ISBN-13: 9780060897222
ISBN-10: 006157872X
ISBN-13: 9780061578724
Lance Herndon used to be on the best of his video game in 1996. At age 41 he used to be a self-made millionaire, the landlord of entry, Inc., a winning information-systems consulting corporation. As a widespread member of Atlanta's younger, prosperous, and robust set, he was once surrounded via black Atlanta's ''beautiful people.'' but if he didn't appear for paintings sooner or later, family and friends began to fear. Their fear quickly became to horror while he used to be stumbled on murdered in his own residence, his head smashed in—in what looked to be both an act of jealousy-fueled rage or a seedier intercourse crime. With a laundry record of ex-wives and fanatics, rivals, critics, and admirers in hand, detectives needed to holiday during the city's top crust to find his killer. Journalist Ron Stodghill tells the riveting, actual tale of this research.
half investigative mystery, half sociological statement, Redbone bargains a really exciting tale that channels perception into one among America's nice metropolises.
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Anastasio was an amateur bodybuilder with a longish face that looks disproportionate to his stout, muscular frame. Walking up the driveway, Anastasio passed a pair of officers leaving the house in brisk strides toward their squad car. ” Anastasio asked. An officer told him that it was safe for him to proceed, that only the paramedics and the victim’s mother and grandmother, plus a couple of employees in an office downstairs, were in the house. With his partner Marty Evans following behind, Anastasio pushed open the heavy oak door.
That afternoon, a few hours after Jackie had discovered their son’s body, Russell had been startled upright when the phone rang. On the line was his cousin Verna from New York. He knew Verna wasn’t sounding right. Then she told him. “They found him this morning, Russell. I’m so sorry. He’s dead. ” Russell Herndon saw his son’s face as though it was in front of him. For a moment he sat there hoping his hearing had failed him, and that Verna was referring to some other Lance. But he knew somehow, and his creaky old knees sprung him off the sofa.
Lance was fond of both Len and Rudy, though he considered Rudy his most trusted confidant. In fact, he and Rudy had been so close that in the early stages of dating Jeannine, he impressed upon her only half-jokingly that she needed to pass Rudy’s scrutiny before things could get really serious between them. As Lance became more popular on the social scene, he gradually withdrew from both Len and Rudy, believing these old friends lacked the proper level of style and sophistication to fit into his new world.