A VENOM IN THE BLOOD.

Hardback, 1st edition. The bizarre true account of the only recorded case of a husband-and-wife serial killer team. In the scorching heat of late summer, 1978, Gerald Armond Gallego, with his common-law wife Charlene Williams Gallego in tow, launched a series of brutal kidnap-rape-murders that would terrorise the California countryside and claim at least 10 young lives within the space of less than 3-yrs. Told largely from the point of view of the Gallegos, this is the story of how a barren and lawless childhood led to a life of crime that ended in a long climactic nightmare of sex, drugs, kidnapping, assault and murder to rank with the stories of such as Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and other infamous serial killers. What prompted the attractive Charlene, whose IQ was estimated at 160, to lure these young women into the back of Gerald's van where she and Gerald, who was married 7 times (polygamously) and who carried on an incestuous relationship with his daughter from the age of 10, engaged in a routine of drug-induced orgies, sodomy, rape and murder? Illus. 322pp. 8vo. h/back. Tiny name insc. on fep o/w covers F. in Nr. F. dw.