Ann Rule is a terrific crime author. She lays out the whole story and rarely allows her own opinions regarding the case to filter into the pages of the book. She simply lays out the facts and allows the reader to come to their own conclusions.

Bart Corbin had a huge problem with rejection. Of the women mentioned in the book who tried to leave him, only one left with her life. Both Dolly and Jennifer were murdered. While Dolly's death was originally ruled a suicide, her family never believed that she could have done it. And Bart was questioned regarding her death at the time that it happened. He even changed his story and admitted that the first time he was questioned he had lied!! In the end, there wasn't enough evidence in the early 90s to convict him of any wrongdoing. Not until after his wife was found dead under disturbingly similar circumstances.

Jennifer Corbin was introduced to a game called Everquest and met someone named "Christopher" through the game. They began emailing back and forth daily. The relationship that Jennifer had with Chris really struck a chord with me as, two years ago, I was involved in an online relationship. Most people nowadays have met someone in person that they first met online. Some of my closest friends in daily life were people that I originally met online. Anyhow, in Jennifer's case, she couldn't figure out why Chris never wanted to talk to her on the phone. They had such a connection! Wouldn't anyone with that type of connection want to hear the other person's voice? Hear the other person tell them that he/she loved them? About a week before Jennifer died, "Chris" admitted to her that he was a woman and his real name was Anita. Fortunately, in my own online relationship (where I never got to speak on the phone with my "boyfriend"), I was spared from him telling me that he had been lying to me about his gender or anything else he had told me. He simply got mad at me and decided that I had been lying to him all along. It was easier to just cut ties and let it go than continue trying to fight for something that never was meant to be. Jennifer, however, was not spared from this. She never really had the time to process the fact that she had been lied to by someone she cared about deeply. I think that most of us have been betrayed in one way or another at some point in our lives. And this is how we can all relate to Jennifer, even if it's not in the exact same circumstances.