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Book Review of While She Slept (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

While She Slept (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
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In 1988 Jill and Jeffs Cahills marrage was over, a divorce was pending and he felt as if his life was in shambles.
A pre dawn argument between them ended with an aluminum baseball. He feared that since he surived the blow, that once she testified against him in an assault trial, he would be ruined for life. So he decided to sneak into her hospital room and ended her life with potassium cyanide, killing her instantly.
This was one of the most passionate and furious debates about the death penalty in New Yorks History, leaving Jills family grief stricken family and surviors to wonder.