WEB OF DECEIT A shocking true story of sex, greed and cold-blooded murder

Paperback. Kathryn Ann Martini graduated from Yale with a bright future in the banking business. Young, beautiful and ambitious, she had everything going for her, until she met Michael David Lissy. The sleazy proprietor of a scuba diving school, he was a coke addict who consorted with pimps, prostitutes and known criminals. Burned out and broke, he had nothing going for him until he met Kathryn. On July 6, 1984, the raped and mutilated body of Kathryn Martini Lissy was found at the Valley River Inn in Eugene, Oregon. Soon afterwards police arrested Michael David Lissy, Kathryn's husband of one year. A few months earlier, Lissy had taken out a large insurance police on Kathryn's life, naming him as sole beneficiary. Then he hired an underworld assassin to stalk and kill his wife. After one of the most sensational trials in Eugene's recent history, Lissy was convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment. Illus. 305pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true-crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. V. lightly browned pp., sl. faded sp. o/w Nr. F. with no creasing to covers.