Description:
After killer Shelia Eddy pled guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison and Rachel Shoaf was sentenced to thirty years for second-degree murder, family, friends, investigators, and other key sources reveal the facts you would have learned if the case had gone to trial. Including specific details drawn from Rachel's confession, Pretty Little Killers looks at the crime through the eyes of the victim and killers, providing intimate testimony from the pages of Rachel's personal journal, Skylar's diary and school papers, and court records.
Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller examine all this, including previously unreported details about Rachel and Shelia's rumored lesbian relationship, and explain why more than one investigator believes that Skylar's murder was a thrill kill. Most important, Pretty Little Killers provides a satisfying answer to Skylar's final question: "Why?"
Brief description: Daleen Berry is an enterprising writer who has written about important social topics such as filicide-suicide, domestic violence murders, sexual crimes, and mental illness for the Daily Beast, the Huffington Post, and xoJane. Berry's book Sister of Silence has received both critical and popular acclaim, while broadcast journalist and former NPR Morning Edition host Bob Edwards has called Berry a "magnificent storyteller."