By Kathy Braidhill
ISBN-10: 0312974167
ISBN-13: 9780312974169
Impeccably dressed, meticulously neat, Dana Sue grey spared no rate on herself. losing hundreds of thousands of greenbacks on a purchasing binge or a sumptuous day spa used to be not anything extra special for Dana-nor for plenty of prosperous ladies. yet Dana wasn't wealthy-she used to be an unemployed nurse. She used to be additionally a serial murderess, who preyed upon aged ladies, violently killed them, then used their charge cards to embark on wild, post-murder spending sprees.
Women serial killers are rare-there are just 36 documented cases-and these, like Dana Sue grey, who homicide so brutally that veteran law enforcement officials are shaken by way of the bloodiness of the crime scene, are even rarer. Now, in an exposé as surprising and interesting as its subject material, writer Kathy Braidhill explores the lovely tale of Dana Sue grey, some of the most risky, lethal, and disturbed girls in background
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Maybe we’ll even take some more pictures. Anyway, I’ll leave you out there, somewhere around Blythe, with money for bus fare. ” The plan didn’t sound very attractive to Judy, but she could hardly do anything but agree. She got dressed and at about 8 PM. they walked quietly downstairs to the car. She was sharply aware of the gun in his pocket, pressed against her side, and too terrified to make a break for freedom. Harvey headed down Hollywood Freeway and out San Bernardino Freeway, which leads through the broad valleys into the vast mountain and desert coun try east of Los Angeles.
After an uneventful beginning as a Peeping Tom, he got hold of a gun somewhere and prowled the dark streets of Denver at night, trailing young women walking alone. He accosted them at lonely spots, pushed his gun into their ribs, snatched their purses and ran away as they screamed for help. He didn’t actually molest his victims sexually – he was afraid to try that – but the twisted sex motivation was clear in Harvey’s later explanation: “The money was incidental. The important thing was to put them in fear.
When he was through, he brought out the lethal five-foot cord – the same one with which he had strangled Judy Dull – and made it fast to the cord around her ankles. At the last minute, as he pressed down on her back and started to pull her legs up, Shirley realized what he was doing. “Please! ” she begged. ” Then her pleas were cut off as Harvey strangled her in exactly the same way he had killed Judy. He hung onto the cord for five minutes, before he let go. Shirley fell back, lifeless. Harvey removed and coiled up his precious ropes, after which he dragged Shirley’s body into a tangle of brush 20 yards away.