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    Dance With the Devil: A Memoir of Murder and Loss

    By David Bagby

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    Immortalized in the spellbinding documentary Dear Zachary, this angry, raw, and brutally honest memoir of murder and loss chronicles a system’s failure to prevent the death of a child.

    In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, five bullet wounds in his face, chest, buttocks, and the back of the head. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable—but Andrew’s murder was only the first in a string of tragic events.

    The chief suspect for Andrew’s murder was his ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner—also a doctor. Obsessive and unstable, Shirley Turner lied to the police and fled to her family home in Newfoundland before she could be arrested. While fending off extradition efforts by U.S. law enforcement, she announced she was pregnant with Andrew's son, Zachary. The Bagbys—hoping to gain custody of Zachary—moved to Newfoundland and began a long, drawn-out battle in court and with Canadian social services to protect their grandson from the woman who had almost certainly murdered their son. Then, in August 2003, Shirley Turner killed herself and the one-year-old Zachary by jumping into the Atlantic Ocean.

    DANCE WITH THE DEVIL is a eulogy for a dead son, an elegy for lives cut tragically short, and a castigation of a broken system.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDiversion Books
    Release dateAug 4, 2015
    ISBN9781626819672

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    • 5/5
      If you have not seen the documentary Dear Zachary, go watch it now. This book was written by David Bagby, whose son Andrew was murdered by his girlfriend. After Andrew's murder, it was discovered that his girlfriend was pregnant with his child. In order to escape criminal charges, she then fled to Canada to fight extradition. This books is the true story about Andrew's murder and the custody fight between his parents and girlfriend over his son Zachary. This is one of the saddest books I have ever read. I saw the documentary first and I just had to read the book too. It will stay with you for a very long, long time. David Bagby tells it how it is, without and fluff or worry about how he may come off looking. This is a man who loves his son and grandson and is so honest and emotional you cannot help but feel their pain. The book narrates each court date and delay that the Bagbys had to endure in order to just visit with their grandchild and fight for custody. Nobody should EVER have to go through what they went through. The justice system absolutely failed this family beyond belief. If you haven't read this book, please do. You cannot even begin to understand the nightmare of which they lived unless you read this book or watch the documentary. I recommend both.

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    • 5/5
      This is about parents losing their only son and only grandson to murder by the same psycho woman. Demonstrates Canada's slow extradition process. So well-written and heartbreaking.

      1 person found this helpful