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Start giftingFatal Jealousy
The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder
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Roger Wayne
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Length
7 hours 35 minutes
Language
English
June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania state trooper witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers, "I just killed everybody."
Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery. In the home of Michael's ex-girlfriend, Denise Mehri, they find four bodies that had been stabbed repeatedly with a knife: Denise, on the kitchen floor; her grandfather, in his wheelchair; her neighbor; and her father, in a room with a blood-smeared obscenity painted on the wall. How could anyone do something so horrendous?
Michael had already been convicted of murder, sent to prison when he was only eighteen. Despite several incidents of misconduct during his time in prison, he was found suitable for parole shortly after his minimum sentence lapsed. But this time, his deadly rampage would not be so easily pardoned.
Colin McEvoy is a reporter for The Express-Times, a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. He and his wife, Lynn Olanoff, covered the Rhonda Smith murder case extensively and it was during a jailhouse interview with them that Mary Jane Fonder first acknowledged responsibility for her crime. They wrote about the Fonder case in the St. Martin's True Crime book, Love Me or Else. Colin and Lynn have been married since 2008. Colin graduated from East Stroudsburg University in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. Colin currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Lynn Olanoff is a reporter for The Express-Times, a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. She and her husband, Colin McEvoy, covered the Rhonda Smith murder case extensively and it was during a jailhouse interview with them that Mary Jane Fonder first acknowledged responsibility for her crime. They wrote about the Fonder case in the St. Martin's True Crime book, Love Me or Else. Colin and Lynn have been married since 2008. Lynn is a graduate of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey. Lynn currently resides in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.
Roger Wayne hails from small-town Minnesota. He served in the Air Force as a broadcast journalist in South Korea. After doing plays in early college he earned an acting scholarship and obtained his BA in communications and journalism. He worked as an actor for two years in Minneapolis and then moved to NYC, where he continues to work in TV, film, theater, and voice-over. He has recorded for video games, animation, and commercials, and he loves making books come to life. Roger lives in New York City. You can see what he's up to at rogerwayne.com.