Journal Entry 1 by brideofmessiah from Hillsboro, Missouri USA on Friday, June 17, 2005

Received this from a FreeCycler, and passing it along, as I can't stomach true crime.

From the back of the book: "She was a hard-working, cheerful waitress, one of the nicest people you'd ever want to know. She was also a three-bottle-a-day alcoholic, hopelessly in love with the IHOP's manager, Allen Bryant. Bryant wanted his live-in lover, IHOP owner Art Venecia, dead. And Dee Casteel helped him to arrange it. After Venecia's murder, Dee and Bryant moved into his house, forged checks, spent his money, and embezzled from the IHOP to buy gifts for Bryant's boyfriends. But there was an even more gruesome killing to come...."

MMPB 305pp