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    Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth
    Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth
    Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth
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    Fatal Charm: The Shocking True Story of Serial Wife Killer Randy Roth

    Written by Carlton Smith

    Narrated by Keith Sellon-Wright

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    From the bestselling author of The Search for the Green River Killer: a chilling true account of the dream husband who was every woman's nightmare.

    Randy Roth was handsome, hardworking, kind, and in top physical shape. But for all his charm and good looks, he was seemingly cursed with the ladies. His first marriage ended in divorce before the couple's fifth anniversary; his second wife plunged to her death during a hike; and his third wife left him after less than five months.

    But when Roth's fourth wife, Cynthia, drowned in an apparent speedboating accident in Washington State's Lake Sammamish just weeks after their first anniversary, a pattern of suspicious behavior finally caught up to him. As Roth set about collecting on a hefty insurance payout, the authorities were on to his game.

    Roth had been careful-and so close to getting away with it. But, as chronicled by Seattle Times reporter and Pulitzer Prize finalist Carlton Smith, his lies were about to come crashing down around him.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateJan 29, 2019
    ISBN9781977330987
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    Carlton Smith

    Carlton Smith (1947–2011) was a prizewinning crime reporter and the author of dozens of books. Born in Riverside, California, Smith graduated from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington, with a degree in history. He began his journalism career at the Los Angeles Times and arrived at the Seattle Times in 1983, where he and Tomas Guillen covered the Green River Killer case for more than a decade. They were named Pulitzer Prize finalists for investigative reporting in 1988 and published the New York Times bestseller The Search for the Green River Killer (1991) ten years before investigators arrested Gary Ridgway for the murders. Smith went on to write twenty-five true crime books, including Killing Season (1994), Cold-Blooded (2004), and Dying for Love (2011).

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    • 5/5
      A really great read. Gripping to the end. Highly recommended
    • 2/5
      Pretty dry, purely a documentary type book. A little bit of a look at the perpetrators life but very little info into his victims