Mystery of Couple’s Deadly Sailing Cruise Solved?
Mystery of Couple’s Deadly Sailing Cruise Solved?
Son Reveals Untold Story in 35-year-old Cold Case
February 1978: Six months after leaving Puget Sound for French Polynesia, Loren and Joanne Edwards lie dead aboard their sailboat Spellbound. Their daughter is bleeding from head wounds. Their injured son and a family friend are also aboard, and all give confusing information about what has happened. The case is front-page news in Seattle and Tahiti for weeks, investigated for years, but no one is ever charged with a crime.
July 2013: Thirty-five years later, the couple’s oldest son will reveal facts unknown to the public and name the FBI’s prime suspect with the release of Dare I Call It Murder?—A Memoir of Violent Loss. Larry Edwards’ memoir deciphers a maze of contradictory witness accounts and published reports in his ongoing struggle to learn the truth and deal with the emotional turmoil from his parents' deaths.
In Dare I Call It Murder?—A
Memoir of Violent Loss learn
why:
• Edwards believes his brother attacked
his sister and that his parents did not die by accident or
suicide, as his brother claimed.
• The reason Edwards
gives for the attack could stun readers as much as the crime
itself.
• Edwards’ brother was never charged and
never spent more than a few hours behind bars.
•
Edwards set out on the trip, but abandoned the journey
before the Spellbound left the West Coast.
• Edwards
and two of his sisters filed a “slayer” petition against
their brother during probate of their parents’ wills, and
their brother did not contest it.
• Edwards calls a
2009 account of his parents’ final days by true-crime
writer Ann Rule inaccurate. It tore the Edwards family even
farther apart and compelled Edwards to finish writing his
story.
“I was having trouble living my life because I was consumed with setting the record straight and trying to provide a semblance of justice for my parents,” says Edwardsexplaining his years of frustration, legal battles and painstaking research. “It took me three decades to realize I was suffering from post-traumatic stress, and I want my story to give greater focus to violent loss and the traumatic grief that goes with it."
Connie Saindon, a therapist who has helped Edwards and founder of the Survivors of Violent Loss Program in San Diego, CA, writes, “It’s the kind of book you can’t put down. You will live this story.”
• Photos of the Edwards family, their sailboat Spellbound, and newspaper articles about the investigation are available on request.
Details:
Release
Date: July 9, 2013~Publisher: Wigeon Publishing
Hardcover ISBN-13:
978-0-9859728-2-0
Trade paperback ISBN-13:
978-0-9859728-3-7
E-book ISBN 13:
978-0-9859728-6-8
Winner: San Diego Book Awards, 2012 Unpublished Memoir (www.larryedwards.com/news/pr_SDBAA_award_6-11-12.html)
Website: www.DareICallItMurder.com
Blog: http://polishingyourprose.wordpress.com/category/my-book
About
the Author:
Larry M. Edwards is an award-winning
investigative journalist who has served as writer and editor
for several publications, including sailing and maritime
periodicals. He lived with his family in Seattle and
Kirkland before attending the University of Washington and
becoming a junior high school teacher in Tacoma. He now
lives in San Diego and works as a freelance writer, book
editor and publishing consultant.
ENDS