Fighting the Devil -A True Story of Consuming Passion, Deadly Poison, and Murder
A Texas millionaire rancher discovered his wife andbookkeeper had stolen thousands of dollars from him. After he demanded the money back, hestarted getting sick. While he was in the hospital, doctors were mystified as to howan otherwise healthy, energetic man could become so deathly ill. The dying man toldeveryone within earshot that his wife and bookkeeper were killing him. The man’s wife saidher husband was hallucinating from drugs the doctors were giving him. Themillionaire rancher succumbed in the hospital while strapped down to his bedwith restraints on his hands and feet and tubes in every orifice. After therancher died, an anonymous caller tipped off the police.
The widow was the sole beneficiary of the estate and a$350,000 life insurance policy.
A week before the man’s death, a teenager visited therancher’s home and became deathly ill after he drank juice that was in the rancher’srefrigerator. Two years after the millionaire’s death, a bottle of arsenic was found in astorage locker rented by a woman under an assumed name.
The millionaire’s ex-wife, the mother of his children,became a sleuth to help solve the murder. No one could have predicted the aftermath withits strange twists and unexpected results.
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