Fatal Error (Mass Market Paperback)

by Mark Morris (Author), Paul Janczewski (Author)

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Product Description
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: 320 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: 6.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #514,264 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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57 of 64 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

34 of 37 people found the following review helpful:

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

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

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.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book... Agree with Michigan comments though..., August 12, 2003

By	Michigan mom to Chinese daughters - See all my reviews

This book was excellent, and was the first one I couldn't put down in ages. Matter of fact, I read it twice in a month to catch the little details I missed in my fury to read it the first time!
However, I agree with the writer that said they described Flint incorrectly... I am from near Detroit, and even though we have violence (and LOTS of it), Flint is hideous in some areas, and that one in particular is bad. I wouldn't describe it as even working class.
This has all the elements of a REAL true crime novel... sex, lies, videotapes, and confessions. You will even feel kind of bad for the gunman afterwards.... thrilling and chilling... it is a must read!!!!!