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Ladykiller How Conman Bruce Burrell Kidnapped and Killed Rich Women for Their Money
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In May 1997, mother-of-three Kerry Whelan disappears on the way to a beautician's appointment. Twenty-four hours later her husband receives a ransom letter: There will be no second chances. Follow all instructions or your wife will die. The case sparked Australia's greatest police manhunt, with detectives locked into a deadly waiting game for the kidnapper to make contact. As time ticked away and hopes for Kerry began to fade, a surprising suspect emerged. Bruce Allan Burrell was a seemingly respectable advertising executive living the good life with a coterie of well-to-do friends, including the Whelans. But when police delved into his background, Burrell's glamorous lifestyle proved to be a sham: in fact he was a thief and con man with a far more sinister secret. Two years before Kerry was kidnapped, wealthy widow Dorothy Davis had disappeared after advancing Burrell a large loan. When police searchers began scouring the bush of a remote country property, they did not know that they would be looking for the bodies of two of the killer's victims, as a tenacious detective and his team embarked on a ten-year mission to bring Burrell to justice.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781741751635 |
Publisher: | Allen & Unwin |
Imprint: | Allen & Unwin |
Pub date: | 01 Mar 2009 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 228 |
Weight: | 396g |
Height: | 195mm |
Width: | 132mm |
Spine width: | 33mm |