THE MARIA KORP CASE The Woman in the Boot story

Softcover. When Melbourne mother of two, Maria Korp, went missing on February 9, 2005, police immediately suspected her wayward husband, Joe, and his mistress, Tania Herman. While Maria lay dying in the boot of her car near the Shrine of Remembrance, Korp made the fateful decision to point the finger of blame at his lover - and keep his role in her actions a secret. Before long, however, the betrayed Herman decided to turn herself in, confessing to police a twisted tale of suburban swingers, predatory psychics, grand-scale deceptions, petty lies, and the outrageous manipulations of a man whose out-of-control ego and desires led him down a murderous path. The author followed the Maria Korp case from the beginning, and was one of the last people to have contact with Joe Korp before he committed suicide on August 12, 2005, the day of Maria's funeral. In this account, she has gathered, for the first time, all the evidence - including Herman's statement to police; text messages exchanged between Herman and Korp; conversations recorded by the police; Maria Korp's diary entries from the months leading up to her death, and excerpts from Joe Korp's diary - as well as depicting the drama surrounding the Public Advocate's decision to allow Maria to starve to death. The bizarre death - and almost as strange life - of Maria Korp is already one of Australia's most notorious criminal cases. Illus. in colour. 346pp. trade size p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.