CROSSED OVER. The True Story of the Houston Pickax Murders

Paperback. On June 13, 1983, in a Houston apartment a man and woman were savagely pickaxed to death. In the weeks that followed, 23yr. old Karla Faye Tucker boasted that she was the pickaxe killer, and that she had been sexually aroused during the murder. At her trial she did not deny her guilt. Her sentence was death. But beyond the shocking headlines was another story waiting to be revealed..a story of mothers and children, loss and redemption, crime and punishment..the true story of Karla Faye Tucker that the author, grappling with the death of her own teenage son, uncovered when she went to meet Karla Faye on Death Row. 291pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Lightly browned pp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.