Open Secrets
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ISBN13: 9780671709969
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"On an early fall afternoon in 1983, Rozanne Gailiunas was brutally murdered in the bedroom of her house on a tree-lined street in the Dallas suburb of Richardson, Texas, while her four-year-old son napped in the next room." "Recently separated from her successful physician husband, Peter Gailiunas, Rozanne had been having an affair with Larry Aylor, the contractor who had been building an expensive new house for the Gailiunases. When Detective Sergeant Morris McGowan began his investigation, he wondered at first if the murder was the result of a classic love triangle. But neither Gailiunas nor Aylor made the grade as suspects - particularly after Aylor returned to his wife, Joy, within days of Rozanne's funeral. And McGowan couldn't believe that Dr. Gailiunas would have risked allowing his much-loved son to witness such a horrific act of violence. Spurred on by his memory of that frightened, sobbing little boy. McGowan faithfully pursued every slim lead, reluctant to admit that the case might never be solved." "Then, two years after Rozanne Gailiunas's murder, an attempt was made on Larry Aylor's life. Investigators reached a dead end with this case, too - until a call from a woman named Carol Garland turned both cases upside down. "I'm Joy Aylor's sister," Garland told McGowan. "She's the person you're after. Joy is the one who planned the murder of the doctor's wife."" "Thus began a game of cat-and-mouse in which the hunter was McGowan and the quarry was Joy Davis Aylor, who the police believed had paid five thousand dollars to have Rozanne Gailiunas "taken care of" - and then had ordered a hit on the husband Rozanne had stolen from her. A rich and beautiful woman, consumed by jealously and greed, Joy Aylor was adept at assuming an air of vulnerability that masked her incredibly strong and manipulative will. When McGowan charged her with the murder of Rozanne Gailiunas, she managed to raise bail, then began an affair with a man named Mike Wilson, a once-promising trial lawyer who had burned out on the fast track and now handled plea bargains for drug overlords. Finally, facing the death penalty if a jury found her guilty, Joy Aylor cashed in her jewelry and her bank accounts and persuaded Wilson - his career and life already in ruins - to flee the country with her." "Open Secrets is the story of a moral wasteland where taking a human life cost only five thousand dollars and hiring killers was discussed with chilling nonchalance. It is the story of a fascinating, troubled woman, who appeared to seesaw between careful planning and outrageous risk-taking, between eerie calm and paranoid hysteria. And it is the story of how Morris McGowan finally ran Joy Aylor to ground after eight years and an international chase - featured on television on "America's Most Wanted" - that covered four countries and two continents. Arrested in Nice, France, Joy Aylor attempted suicide. She remained in jail in France, where she successfully fought extradition to the U.S. for two years. Finally, late in 1993, she returned to Dallas to face the heinous charges against her."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
| ISBN-13 | 9780671709969 |
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| ISBN-10 | 0671709968 |
| Weight | 1.45 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 6.75 x 1.50 x 9.50 In |
| List Price | $22.00 |
| Format | Hardcover |
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| Pages | 368 pages |
| Publisher | Pocket Books |
| Published On | 1994-06-01 |
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