DESPERATE QUEST

Author: Bow (Elizabeth)
Year: 1980
Publisher: Elizabeth Bow
First Edition
Edition Details: 1st Canadian Edn.
Book Condition: NrF.
Price: £10.00
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Softcovers. A mother's long, anguished struggle to force the City of Ottawa to admit it erred tragically in treating her as a troublesome crackpot - when all she wanted was the truth of how her happy, talented son met his violent death in February 1980. Disturbing questions the Ottawa police wouldn't (or couldn't) answer about the Bow case. How did the Crown's teenage star witness know the exact method of death before the police themselves knew? With an insurance of $335,000 to be decided, why did the police automatically assume that William Bow's death was a simple suicide? Whom or what was William Bow afraid of when he took out an extra $100,000 in insurance 3 weeks before his death? Why was the only photograph the police took of the body blotted out across its lower half when none of the others on the roll of film appeared to be affected? When the parents demanded an inquest, which was finally held 9 months after their son's death, why were they the only ones not invited to attend? Was it possible that the investigation of this homicide was so sloppily done that the rest of the establishment closed ranks to save their colleagues' face? Is this the kind of law enforcement the Capital of Canada enjoys? Would you want to be fobbed off as a crank - or worse - because you insisted on knowing how, why and when a child of yours died?. Includes Inquest Report. Illus. 65pp. trade size softcover. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr. F.

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