SEVERED RELATIONS

Paperback. They came from the Soviet Union to start a new life. Together, Dr. Yakov Gluzman, a cancer researcher, and his wife Rita found success and wealth in their adopted country. But on Easter Sunday morning in 1986, in a New Jersey parking lot, a local policeman discovered how badly the American dream had turned out for the millionaire Russian couple. A man was spotted throwing trash into the polluted Passaic River. But what looked like ordinary trash bags actually contained pieces of cut up human flesh and bones. Suddenly, police had a killer willing to confess, an expensive set of knives covered with blood, and 65 pieces of Dr. Yakov Gluzman. What they needed now was the person who had ordered the killing: Gluzman's wife, Rita. In recounting one of the bloodiest and most horrific murders ever committed on US soil, the author reveals the shocking details behind a crime of jealousy, greed, scorn, and revenge and the murderous woman who eluded prosecutors until justice finally caught up with her. Illus. with 12pp. of shocking photographs. 272pp. mass market p/back. From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. F. with no creasing to covers.