BLOOD GAMES. A True Account of Family Murder

Hardback. An emergency call shattered the predawn tranquility of rural Washington, North Carolina. Bonnie Von Stein's call to the police on the morning of July 25, 1988 set off a horrifying chain of events that splintered a family and devastated a community. For police would arrive to find Bonnie barely alive and her husband, Lieth, dead, both having been attacked in their sleep by an intruder with a knife and a baseball bat. Bonnie's teenage daughter, asleep down the hall, was unharmed and her son was away at college in Raleigh. Although the Von Stein's were wealthy by local standards, police quickly ruled out burglary as a motive and focused on the family - in particular, on Bonnie's son, Chris Pritchard, and his circle of friends at North Calonina State University. They were a motley trio of boys bound together by an unholy alliance of drugs, fast cars, easy sex, and an obsession with the role-playing game of Dungeons and Dragons. Chris was pampered and directionless, his friend Neal Henderson was a certified genius, and James "Bart" Upchurch, a descendant of North Carolina's legendary "cornbread aristocracy" would do anything for kicks. Three consciuenceless boys drawn together in a malevolent synergy that exploded in deadly violence. Illus. 451pp. 8vo. h/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F. in nr. f. dw. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage.