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The perfect couple--a killer and a victim.
They were the dream couple. Bright and beautiful Diane Pikul came from an exclusive college to Manhattan looking for the best of everything and got it--a glamorous career plus a rich and fascinating husband and two wonderful children. Joseph Pikul was a poor boy who had become a wunderkind of Wall Street. In a world where money was king, he was royalty.
Then, one afternoon in their lavish seaside weekend home, the dream ended in a bloody nightmare. In an intensely dramatic trial, the murder of Diane Pikul became the crime that summed up a decade--a story of greed, drugs, perversion, violence and a woman torn between risky independence and a lifestyle she would have to pay for with her life.
Now for the first time the full story is told--a story that puts you in the heart of a victim as well as the mind of a murderer.
They were the dream couple. Bright and beautiful Diane Pikul came from an exclusive college to Manhattan looking for the best of everything and got it--a glamorous career plus a rich and fascinating husband and two wonderful children. Joseph Pikul was a poor boy who had become a wunderkind of Wall Street. In a world where money was king, he was royalty.
Then, one afternoon in their lavish seaside weekend home, the dream ended in a bloody nightmare. In an intensely dramatic trial, the murder of Diane Pikul became the crime that summed up a decade--a story of greed, drugs, perversion, violence and a woman torn between risky independence and a lifestyle she would have to pay for with her life.
Now for the first time the full story is told--a story that puts you in the heart of a victim as well as the mind of a murderer.
Genres:
- Nonfiction >> True Accounts >> Murder & Mayhem
- Nonfiction >> Social Sciences >> Sociology >> General
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Cheryl (Toni) J. (Forty-four-year-old Diane Whitmore Pikul, who had finally decided to divorce her abusive husband, had been strangled and bludgeoned to death by Joseph Pikul, a Wall Street securities analyst who saw murder as the easiest way to retain custody of his two children. Although he had been arrested wearing women's underwear (he later died of AIDS in prison) and although he expressed no remorse in confessing to Diane's murder, Pikul was allowed sole custody while he was free on bail. In this compelling book, journalist Weller, who covered the Pikul case for Ms. magazine, explores Diane's self-destructive youth, her tragic attempt to break away from Pikul, and the child custody and domestic violence issues that arose from her murder. Strongly recommended for all true crime collections.
Terri E. (This is a fast true crime read. If you like Ann Rule, you will like this book
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