Fatal Error [Mass Market Paperback]

Mark Morris (Author), Paul Janczewski (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 1, 2003

Twice divorced Flint, Michigan housewife and mother Sharee Miller, 27, met ex-cop Jerry Cassaday in an Internet chat room. A face-to-face meeting quickly ripened into sexual intimacy. Miller went home, but kept Cassaday's infatuation for her boiling with a steady stream of sexplicit e-mails - and a homemade X-rated videotape of herself. But Miller's e-mails to Cassady also said that her husband was a chronic wife-beater whose sexual abuse had caused her to miscarry Cassady's baby and that he was a career criminal who kept her in constant fear for her life. If only Bruce were dead, Sharee and Jerry could be together! "See if you can come up with a beautiful ending to this nightmare" Sharee Miller messaged. On November 8 1999, Cassaday travelled 700 miles from Missouri to Michigan and emptied a shotgun into Bruce Miller's throat. Cassady killed himself and Miller was sentenced to life in prison.

Product Details

• Mass Market Paperback: 334 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (February 1, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786015241
• ISBN-13: 978-0786015245
• Product Dimensions: 6.9 x 4.5 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #668,260 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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59 of 66 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars I Don't Understand All the 5-Star Reviews, June 17, 2003

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Lynn Perry (Arlington, VA United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fatal Error (Mass Market Paperback)

As an avid true crime fan, I found this book to be little more than just another story about two people plotting the murder of a third. There is no insight provided with regard to the Sharee character -- We are presented with "what she did", but there is no real exploration of her character - & what really motivated her. In my opinion, the book cover (with its lurid picture and "Internet hype") clearly suggested something more than this book was able to deliver.

If you want to read a GOOD book about Internet deception and murder, I would highly recommend "The Internet Slavemaster" by John Glat. Insofar as character development, the book probably does not deliver much more than "Fatal Error", but there is certainly a lot more action, deception, and murder.

36 of 39 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars I was there..., February 20, 2003

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Gloria Taylor (Reno, NV USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fatal Error (Mass Market Paperback)

I was there.... and I could not have written this story as well as the authors, Paul Janczewski and Mark Morris. Three different people, three diffrent time lines, laced in three diffrent lives. Like lacing your tennis shoes, Sharee Miller would weave a deadly lie between her husband, Bruce Miller, and her internet lover Jerry Cassaday. This book is a real page turner, a can't put it down type of book. When you get to the last page and realize that all that you have just read is true, you won't believe it. How could this wife, this mother, be so deadly, with out thinking of anyone else but her self? I wonder. Is this real life or the one in a million type of woman?For a close, personal, in-depth look into what the internet has to offer, read this book. I even knew how it ended, and I read the book to fill in some of the blanks, to answer some of the questions that I still had. Thank you Paul and Mark for doing such a great job with such a difficult story. You were kind and caring to the families when they really needed it. WE are glad it's over, and WE finally know most of the truth.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars This story will stay with you, February 4, 2003

By A Customer

This review is from: Fatal Error (Mass Market Paperback)

Beyond the catchy "First Internet Murder" headlines and the lurid sexual exploits, there were the victims - two people who were cherished by their families. What remained with me after finishing the book was how well the authors were able to push past the easy sensationalism of the story and create very moving portraits of two men who died because of the actions of one woman.

Mark Morris and Paul Janczewski first introduce us to Jerry Cassaday as his suicide reveals something much more sinister than the obvious problems he was wrestling with. From there, the authors re-create the vivid story of how Jerry's chance meeting on the Internet with Sharee Miller led him to murder her husband.

Morris and Janczewski took voluminous Internet mail correspondence, extensive court records and long interviews with the victims' families and friends, as well as convicted murderer Sharee Miller, to create this fascinating, "can't put it down" story. Throughout, you see Jerry Cassaday and Sharee's murdered husband Bruce as their families saw them. After you've finished reading the book, you will continue to feel how they are missed by those who love them.