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    Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder
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    Everybody's Best Friend: The True Story of a Marriage That Ended In Murder

    By Ken Englade

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    The shocking murder that exposed a devoted husband as a cold-hearted killer

    To Love, Honor-And Murder...
    Inside a beautiful house in Philadelphia's ritzy Main Line section lay the body of a young mother
    --dead of an apparent drowning in her bathtub. With no sign of a break-in, no history of marital problems, and the naïve belief that these things sometimes just happen, Stefanie Rabinowitz's family prepared to bury the 29-year-old wife and mother. But at the eleventh hour, because Stefanie was so young, and because there were no witnesses to her death, an autopsy was ordered. And what it revealed was unthinkable: Stefanie had been murdered-strangled in her home, then dragged into the tub to stage a fake drowning. Even more shocking was the suspected killer-Stefanie's 34-year-old husband, Craig: devoted family man, loyal husband, and "everybody's best friend."

    When the astounding truth began to emerge, so did the tawdry double life of Craig Rabinowitz, a man so obsessed with a two-thousand-dollar-a-week exotic dancer, that his habit caused him to look to the insurance money he would get from murdering his wife. Now, with exclusive interviews and startling inside details, bestselling author Ken Englade blows wide open the shocking true account of a storybook marriage that ended in bone-chilling murder.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMacmillan Publishers
    Release dateApr 1, 2011
    ISBN9781429922500

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    • 5/5
      This was a really good book. Definitely recommend for a great read.
    • 5/5
      Excellent
      I loved I t ,ike to read another of his
    • 5/5
      Craig Rabinowitz was everybody’s best friend, and then he wasn’t. Deception, betrayal, lies and then the ultimate confession severed the ties he worked so hard to establish.  His apparent loyalty to his wife and baby daughter was so convincing that his network of friends supported him until they finally saw him for what he was, a dishonest man who took advantage of them and committed the ultimate crime. Craig and Stephanie Rabinowitz seemed like an odd pairing from the start. Stephanie was interested in obtaining higher education and went on to become an attorney. Craig had little to no aspirations to become anything.  After Stephanie gave birth to their daughter she began working part time while Craig made money with his latex glove “business.” From outward appearances Craig and Stephanie had a great life. Craig was solicitous towards his wife and seemed to adore their little girl.  The couple shared a small network of friends who supported and loved them even when Craig’s behavior was at times a little peculiar or immature. Things were normal in the Pennsylvania town where they lived until tragedy struck. Stephanie, at only twenty nine years of age, drowned in her bathtub while her husband was at home. No one in Craig’s close circle of friends believed he had anything to do with it, but detectives and prosecuting attorneys disagreed. Of course, Craig adamantly denied having anything to do with his wife’s death, and his friends supported him in every way possible, including financially, until digging into his past unearthed secrets and lies that cast doubt on his innocence. Craig was quickly going from everybody’s best friend to no one’s. This story was told in a format that was easy to follow and understand. It was sad to see how greed and the lack of industriousness on the part of Craig Rabinowitz led to the obliteration of his family’s assets, and the desperation that resulted in an unthinkable criminal act.  A good portion of the book was devoted to building a case against Craig Rabinowitz by the prosecution.  It was interesting learning how that’s done. The audio narrator brought the book to life. If you’re a fan of shows like Dateline or  Investigation Discovery (ID), you’ll appreciate this story. Thank you, Tantor Audio, for a complimentary download of Everybody’s Best Friend. All opinions stated about it in this review are my own. 
    • 3/5
      This book has been on my shelf for years. Maybe a decade even.
      I am reading it now and enjoying it.

      Update: June 22 2012.
      Finished it this morning and I must say I enjoyed reading this.

      The writing style was one I liked. Maybe other people thought it was slow. It is a lot about how the cops were preparing for the trial, but I did not mind that at all. (The end was a bit of a let down but hey, not the author's fault) Other observations: I would have liked to know more about his friends, the ones that were mentioned a lot in the first chapters. So much that they had even a lot of dialogues, so it must be that they talked with the author, or he made it up?

      I would have enjoyed it more if I got to know what happened. Where they angry with him. Did they stop talking. How did he react or was he already in jail? What happened with the baby? Did the families manage to keep the friendship. Parents of the killer and parents of the victim. They have the same grandchild.
      In the beginning of the book you feel like you start to get to know them, so when you do not read anything anymore in the later chapters, you have questions.

      I do suspect the author making up some of the dialogues though. There are people who consider this to be a boring book but weirdly enough, I did not think it was boring to me. Maybe because I was glad to read true crime again? Not sure what to give this book. 3.5 stars yes.