MURDER AT 75 BIRCH A True Story of Family Betrayal

Hardback. They seemed a quintessentially happy family in an American-as-apple-pie community. He was a handsome star athlete who went on to establish a thriving dental practice and gain acceptance within the local elite. She was his childhood sweetheart who became the mother of his lovely daughter, while maintaining a dizzying round of community activities. Then, on the morning of August 30, 1986, the police of Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, received a call from Dr. E. Glen Wolsieffer's brother, Neil, who had found Glen lying semiconscious on the kitchen floor - knocked out, he claimed, by a pre-dawn intruder. Upstairs in the master bedroom, police officers found the battered, strangled body of Glen's wife, Betty. Thus one of the most shocking and sensational murder cases of the decade began to unfold. The author probes the anatomy of murder, a marriage, and a man who lived a triple life. Glen Wolsieffer artfully juggled his roles as a respected dentist, husband, father, as the manipulative lover of his adoring office assistant; and as the clandestine paramour of a beautiful, adulterous woman - until his tawdry secret existence was revealed through murder. The author reconstructs Dr. Wolsieffer's crime and the shattering aftermath; a dogged police investigation that lagged for years because of the circumstantial nature of evidence; the community's growing conviction that Dr. Wolsieffer had killed his wife; and the painful passions that destroyed a close-knit family. A gut-wrenching tale of fierce loyalty and betrayal. In gripping detail, the author documents the tragic death of Glen Wolsieffer's brother, Neil, the morning he was to meet with homicide investigators. And he reveals for the first time the heartbreaking transformation of Neil's widow from one of her brother-in-law's most ardent supporters to one convinced that he really had killed his wife - and was responsible for her husband's death as well. Illus. 409pp. lge. 8vo h/back.From the library of true crime writer, Wilfred Gregg, with his personal b/plate. Nr F. in Vg+ dw. which has a sl. faded sp. A fairly heavy book which may require additional postage.