Jerry Bledsoe

Barbara Stager led what seems like a perfect life. And she committed an almost perfect crime.

By all accounts, Stager was a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader in her community in Durham, North Carolina. The police were inclined to believe her story after she "accidentally" shot her husband, Russ, who was a popular high school coach. They became suspicious, though, when they discovered that her previous husband had died in a strangely ...

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This true crime novel details the experiences of three wealthy Southern families connected through marriage and through murder. The shocking real-life events include obsessive love and bitter custody battles that eventually lead to a bloody climax taking nine lives.

After a vicious assault with a knife and a baseball bat in their home in North Carolina, the wealthy Lieth von Stein lay dead and his wife, Bonnie, near death. The case wasn't going anywhere until police followed a trail leading to von Stein's charming stepson, Chris Pritchard, and his intelligent, nerdy, but drug-using friends at North Carolina State University. Blood Games is a baffling true story of degraded young minds and a son's greed ...

A shocking true story of a double life exposed by a horrible crime.

Velma Barfield was overcome with grief when a sudden illness took the life of her fiance, North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor. Taylor's family grieved with her until traces of arsenic poisoning were revealed in the autopsy. Velma's own son turned her over to authorities. More revelations stunned her family and community - this wasn't the first time Velma, a born-again Christian and ...