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9780312941703

Desire Turned Deadly : The True Story of a Beautiful Girl, Her Teenage Sweetheart, and the Love That Ended in Murder

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  • ISBN13:

    9780312941703

  • ISBN10:

    0312941706

  • Edition: 1st
  • Format: Paperback
  • Copyright: 2009-03-31
  • Publisher: St. Martin's Paperbacks
  • Purchase Benefits
List Price: $6.99

Summary

McMurray recounts the story of Kara Beth Borden, a home-schooled teenager from a Christian fundamentalist family whose boyfriend, David Ludwig, was sentenced to life in prison for killing her parents. photos. Original.

Author Biography

Kevin F. McMurray is a freelance writer/author whose articles have appeared in The New York Times, the Sunday Times of London, Outside, Men’s Journal and others. His two previous books, Deep Descent and Dark Descent, are historical-adventure nonfiction works about notorious shipwrecks. Kevin has written several articles about true crimes that have appeared in Connecticut Magazine and several men’s magazines. He has written two previous St. Martin's True Crime titles, If You Really Loved Me and A Family Cursed.  Kevin lives in Brewster, NY with his wife and two daughters.

Table of Contents

AN INNOCENT GIRL PLAYING BY HEART

Early one November morning, Kara Borden, a pretty fourteen year old, was caught by her parents as she snuck into their Lancaster County, Pennsylvania home. She confessed to spending the night with eighteen-year-old David Ludwig, and her parents—evangelicals who had home-schooled their daughter—were beside themselves with anger. They summoned David to talk immediately. But David arrived to the house with another plan in mind…

A TEENAGER WITH A FATAL ATTRACTION

Two hours later, police arrived at the Borden residence to find that Mr. and Mrs. Borden had been shot dead—and David and Kara were nowhere to be found. Was Kara a hostage? Or an accomplice? A manhunt began that would end hundreds of miles away in a highly televised speed chase.  The two lovers were eventually captured… and one would spend a life behind bars.  This is the true story of a crime set in a closely-guarded world of fundamentalist belief, and the tale of a God-fearing teenager whose DESIRE TURNED DEADLY.

With 8 pages of startling photos!

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