A Lovely Girl, The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers

- Authors
- Deborah Holt Larkin
- Publisher
- Pegasus Books
- Date
- 2022-10-04
- Size
- 14.46 MB
- Lang
- en
The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in Californiaa murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedy.Deborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother in-lawa deeply manipulative and deceptive womanhad been doing everything in her power to separate Olga and her son, Frank, prior to Olga's disappearance. From a forged annulment to multiple attempts to hire people to "get rid" of Olga, to a faked excoriation case, Elizabeth seemed psychopathically attached to her son. Yet she denied having anything to do with Olga's disappearance with a smile. But when Olga's brutally beaten body is found in a shallow grave, apparently buried alive, a young DA...