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Sleep, My Child, Forever (Onyx True Crime) (edition 1995)

by John Coston

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The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the mother who murdered her two sonsā??and nearly killed her daughter
Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was unequipped for motherhood, financially strapped, and desperate. Within a year of each other, her sons, ages two and four, died mysteriously, and Boehm's eight-year-old daughter then suffered a near-fatal mishap when a hair dryer fell into the girl's bath. While neighbors wondered how Boehm remained so calm through it all, Det. Sgt. Joseph Burgoon of St. Louis Homicide had darker suspicions.

Burgoon soon unraveled a labyrinth of deception, greed, and obsession that revealed a cold-blooded killer whose get-rich-quick scheme came at the cost of her children's lives. Boehm had taken out insurance policies on her children with six different companies totaling nearly $100,000. Using police reports, case documents, and photos, journalist John Coston recreates the events that led to one mother's unspeakable acts of filicideā??and a cop's relentless pursuit of the truth.
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Title:Sleep, My Child, Forever (Onyx True Crime)
Authors:John Coston
Info:Onyx (1995), Mass Market Paperback, 320 pages
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Very good book and I am glad I read this. I have a collection of books of women that kill there own children but most suffer from Proxy by Munchausen syndrome. not this selfish obese woman. She suffers from greed and just killed her 2 kids. Very well written. ( )
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Biography & Autobiography. Sociology. True Crime. Nonfiction. HTML:

The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the mother who murdered her two sonsā??and nearly killed her daughter
Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was unequipped for motherhood, financially strapped, and desperate. Within a year of each other, her sons, ages two and four, died mysteriously, and Boehm's eight-year-old daughter then suffered a near-fatal mishap when a hair dryer fell into the girl's bath. While neighbors wondered how Boehm remained so calm through it all, Det. Sgt. Joseph Burgoon of St. Louis Homicide had darker suspicions.

Burgoon soon unraveled a labyrinth of deception, greed, and obsession that revealed a cold-blooded killer whose get-rich-quick scheme came at the cost of her children's lives. Boehm had taken out insurance policies on her children with six different companies totaling nearly $100,000. Using police reports, case documents, and photos, journalist John Coston recreates the events that led to one mother's unspeakable acts of filicideā??and a cop's relentless pursuit of the truth.

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