A Venom in the Blood Author:Eric van Hoffmann As a former police officer and deputy district attorney, I have worked on some 30 homicide cases, & as a criminal trial lawyer I have represented numerous defendents so vile and dangerous it was, at best, a major risk to be alone in the same room with them. But in all my experience, I have never come across a criminal case so brutally bizarre a... more »nd senseless as the kidnap-rape-murders committed by Gerald and Charlene Gallego.« less