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`The phone call never came, and our lives were never the same.', November 6, 2009

By	J. Cameron-Smith "Expect the Unexpected"

On the afternoon of February 10, 1979, Theresa Ferrara took a telephone call at Apple Haircutters on Long Island, NY. Then she headed out the door `to make an easy $10,000' as she told her niece Maria Stewart. That was the last time anyone in Theresa's family saw her alive.

In this book, Theresa's eldest niece Maria has documented her examination of Theresa's disappearance. While Theresa's death was ruled a homicide, no-one has ever been charged for her murder and there have been doubts as to whether the human remains found were even hers. Was Theresa killed over an involvement in the Lufthansa Heist? Was she murdered because of her rumoured informing on drug dealers? This is a story which still has, 30 years later, many unanswered questions.

The story of Theresa Ferrara's disappearance and Ms Stewart's quest for the truth makes for compelling reading. Yes, this book has some flaws in presentation but these did not undermine the dual stories. Dual stories? Yes. For while this is a recounting of the Theresa Ferrara story, it is also a story of the family left behind when Theresa disappeared and how they (especially Maria Stewart) have tried to come to terms with her absence.

Jennifer Cameron-Smith

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Initial post: Nov 16, 2009 12:49 AM PST

H. Schneider says:

a sort of 'true crime' thing? never heard of the woman!

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Posted on Nov 17, 2009 12:35 AM PST

J. Cameron-Smith says:

Yes, definitely true crime. It's an American case, H, which may be why neither you nor I had heard of it.

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