RE: 36 years to commit a murder
September 28, 2014 at 8:58 pm
(This post was last modified: September 28, 2014 at 9:06 pm by vorlon13.)
Tomas Guillen wrote Toxic Love, a true crime book on the murders. It comes up on Ebay from time to time.
I had my copy autographed by the detective. The Forensic Files episode on TV obviously doesn't have all the details the book contains, and the detective told me a few things not in the book.
While he was incarcerated he drew some very disturbing pictures portraying his former girlfriend as a demon (reproduced in the book). He committed suicide by pretending to take his meds, and secretly accumulating them to overdose with. Saved the state the trouble of burning him up in the chair.
It's a chilling and profoundly disturbing case. That he succeeded in his plan after 36 years (and 24 years after he died) is a real pisser.
I've never met any of the survivors or their families, just the detective, but I feel as though I know all of them. This final murder has been quite a jolt.
There is a couple copies on Ebay now. It is an inexpensive paperback.
The Forensic Files series runs on CNN these days, not sure where in rotation the "Without a Trace" episode is. The series (for reasons unknown to me) is also called Medical Detectives. I suppose it is a rerun/syndication thing.
I think I've mangled a few details of the case in the OP, my apologies, it has been an upsetting thing. The detective passed away a few years ago (of an unrelated cancer) and he was a great guy, insisted I not call him 'sir' or 'Mr.' Sometimes he would share a police story with me, sometimes he wouldn't. I sure miss that.
I had my copy autographed by the detective. The Forensic Files episode on TV obviously doesn't have all the details the book contains, and the detective told me a few things not in the book.
While he was incarcerated he drew some very disturbing pictures portraying his former girlfriend as a demon (reproduced in the book). He committed suicide by pretending to take his meds, and secretly accumulating them to overdose with. Saved the state the trouble of burning him up in the chair.
It's a chilling and profoundly disturbing case. That he succeeded in his plan after 36 years (and 24 years after he died) is a real pisser.
I've never met any of the survivors or their families, just the detective, but I feel as though I know all of them. This final murder has been quite a jolt.
There is a couple copies on Ebay now. It is an inexpensive paperback.
The Forensic Files series runs on CNN these days, not sure where in rotation the "Without a Trace" episode is. The series (for reasons unknown to me) is also called Medical Detectives. I suppose it is a rerun/syndication thing.
I think I've mangled a few details of the case in the OP, my apologies, it has been an upsetting thing. The detective passed away a few years ago (of an unrelated cancer) and he was a great guy, insisted I not call him 'sir' or 'Mr.' Sometimes he would share a police story with me, sometimes he wouldn't. I sure miss that.
