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Phoenix, Arizona, 2004. Former stripper turned suburban housewife Marjorie Orbin filed a missing person’s report on her husband. She claimed that Jay, a successful art dealer, had left town on business after celebrating their son’s birthday more than a month before. Jay loved his family more... read more
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Characters/People edit
- Jan Butcher: A detective who had her missing-persons case swept away from her rather suddenly
- Marjorie Orbin: An exotic dancer with expensive tastes
- Debra Jean Milke: Convicted of murdering her own 4-year-old
- Larry Weisberg: Marjorie's 60-year-old boyfriend
- Alcantar: Defense attorney in the court case
- Detective David Barnes: Was assigned to investigate a Tupperware bin full of slushy body parts found in the Arizona desert
- Steve Kopp: A private investigator who used psychics in his work
- Jay Orbin: A down-to-earth go-getter type dealing in Natisve American artwork and jewelry
- Charity McLean: Looked so much like Marjorie that they could pass for mother and daughter, although they were really just very close friends
- Michael J. Peter: The king of the gentleman's club empire in the Depp South
- Mario Oliveri: An old friend of Jay's
- Jake Orbin Jr.: Jay's brother
- Mitchell Marqui: A bar manager whose boss gave Marjorie her first really responsible job
- Larry Tweed: A bigm cuddly guy who wrote his own love songs for the guitar
- Luke Forest: Sang like Lou Rawls
- Joe Cannizzaro: A tile contractor
- Ronald McMann: Owned an excavating company and taught Marjorie to operate heavy equipment
- Milan Radesits: A Danish national and professional dancer
- Jodi Weisberg: Add a description of this character.
First Sentence edit
A putrid stench hung above the desert floor on the outskirts of Phoenix, Arizona.
Series & Lists edit
This book is in True Crime: Murder For profit. (community list)
Authors & Contributors edit
- Shanna Hogan (Author)
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- Dewey: 364
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