On October 29, 1997, hooker Andrea "Slick" Hendrix's, beaten, naked body was discovered in a roadside ditch near Stewartsville, Indiana. With no leads for police to follow, the case eventually went cold, but it wouldn't stay that way. In 2003, sadistic sexual predator Joseph W. Brown claimed to have strangled Hendrix with his favourite murder weapon: a shoelace from a woman's size-8 shoe. Ginger Gasaway, 53, met Brown at a Gambler's Anonymous meeting. She didn't know that when she took up with him, she was gambling with her life. On August 30, 2000, Brown murdered Gasaway and scattered her body parts across three Indiana counties. For this grisly crime, he would be sentenced to life in prison without parole. But it wouldn't be his first time behind bars...In 1977, Brown had been sentenced to life in prison for kidnapping and armed robbery. In 1995, he was released despite the fact that he'd beaten a fellow inmate nearly to death. Brown later confessed that during the next five years, he indulged in a seven-state rampage of torture and murder, his victims female hitchhikers and prostitutes. Now, doing time in Wabash Valley Corrections Centre, Brown maintains that he murdered no less than thirteen other women.
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Steven Walker has approximately 1,500 published credits to his name. He was born in Heidelberg, Germany and started freelancing professionally in 1989, beginning mostly with short horror fiction pieces for small press publications. In 1996, Walker had his first horror novel, Desmodus, published. Shortly after that, he opened up the Quakertown, PA chapter of Active Voice International, and was pivotal in the creation of The Writers Room of Bucks County and Bucks County Writer magazine. Walker founded the Lehigh Valley Writers Academy in 2001. He worked as a reporter/photographer for The Morning Call newspaper (a division of The Tribune Company) for three years. He has had nonfiction pieces published in newspapers and magazines and has received several awards for his macabre style of poetry. His book, Blood Trail (2005) is a true-crime story about a confessed serial killer from Indiana. It has been so well accepted that it was listed as an available textbook for criminal justice courses at the University of Indiana and at IVY Tech Community College in Evansville, Indiana. Due to its unprecedented popularity, it has been re-released as of June 2009. His latest book, Predator, is a culmination of a year of research into the life and crimes of serial killer, Timothy Krajcir. Visit www.steven-walker.com for more information, videos about the investigation, and a calendar of book signing engagements and events.
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12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:
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Steve Walker, with the input of Detective Rick Reed, has written a true crime book that reads like a novel. His experience as a reporter shines as he weaves the story of Joe Brown, a convicted killer, throughout the book. The book goes into great detail into the mind of Joe Brown and shows how this very disturbed person became a killer. The book was very easy to read and I would reccommend it to anyone who enjoys these kinds of books.
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Good Job, Rick!,
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Riveting from beginning to end. A fascinating and disturbing look into the mind of a killer, co-written by the detective who first suspected that something bad had happened to Ginger Gassaway of Evansville, IN, and finally helped bring justice to her family by forming a bond with her twisted murderer.
I couldn't put it down.
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Very badly written,
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The grammar and vocabulary of this book make it jarring to read for those of us more accustomed to the excellent writing of someone such as John Glatt or Lowell Cauffiel. I couldn't get through it.
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