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Bitter Harvest A Woman's Fury A Mother's Sacrifice - Audio Cassette - Abridged Author:Ann Rule, Mary Beth Hurt (Narrator) On the night of October 23/24, 1995 in Prairie Village, Kansas, a fierce, wind-driven fire devastated the luxurious mansion of Dr. Debora Green and her husband, Dr. Michael Farrar. Trapped and burned to death in the flames were twelve-year-old Tim and his six-year-old sister Kelly. Lissa, ten, was barely able to leap to safety from the garage ro... more »of into the arms of her mother, who was standing outside the house. When Michael Farrar returned to the scene, he had lost more than his children and his home. His entire life was in ruins.
The fire was the climactic event of Michael and Debora's lives. Until that summer, they seemed to have it all -- a happy marriage, successful medical practices, three bright and beautiful children. Then they went on a trip to Peru with their son. There, they met attractive, blonde Celeste Walker, whose husband, John was also a successful doctor. But after that trip, nothing was the same again for either couple, and all the dark hidden places in Debora and Michael's marriage bubbled to the surface in a series of almost unbelievable horrors.
Bitter Harvest is the chronicle of this tragedy in the heartland of America, the true story of the disintegration of a marriage and its horrifying consequences. Rule takes us deep in the psyche of a killer whose behavior was so twisted and so evil that it defies belief. Gripping, powerful, and ultimately terrifying, Bitter Harvest is a vivid recreation of an unthinkable crime -- and a depiction of the unimagined depths of a darkness within the human spirit.
Yikes! I just finished this book. Usually I "read" these while commuting, but this was so fascinating I dragged out my cassette player and stuck it in the garden with me.
Genene Jones was everything a nurse should be. Cool. Calm. Dedicated. But she was also a murderer. And her victims were little babies.
At first my interest was stimulated because I am a nurse. True crime and the reader did a great job conveying the tension, etc. The players were still impersonal characters to me. Then wham, all of a sudden I saw this baby girl in my mind and I was a goner. Almost had to pull over that day as they struggled to save her life. Child after child, families devastated. A brand new, dedicated pediatrician wiped out, reduced to piece work, and divorced after only 6 months of marriage due to the repercussions of having hired this lunatic nurse. This one will stay with me a long time.
Currently 5/5 Stars.
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great story about 2 doctors that married, raised children together until the mother set the house on fire losing 2 of her 3 children.