The Stranger in My Bed
by Michael Fleeman
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He Found New Brides To Love Him. All Diane Bertalan really knew of her new husband, John was that he was a widower, he lavished her with gifts, and he preferred to keep his past a secret. What she didn't know was that the FBI had been watching him for years. In the Fall of 2000, she found out why it was a crime that had been haunting authorities for decades. They called it the mystery of the Lady in the Box. Fifteen Years Later, Police Found The R decaying body that had been left along an show more Indiana roadside ditch in 1980 had finally been identified as Janice Hartman. In 1974, the Ohio woman had been reported missing by her estranged David Smith. The gruesome discovery was only the beginning of Diane Smith's brutal awakening, for Hartman was only the first of Smith's wives to have vanished off the face of the earth. The Stranger in My Bed is the chilling true story of one woman who escaped the deadly hold of the killer she loved and married, and of the grieving families of his victims who banded together after nearly thirty years to prove that justice never forgets. Or forgives. show lessTags
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- Canonical title
- The Stranger in My Bed
- People/Characters
- John David Smith; Janice Hartman; Diane Bertolan; Betty Fran Gladden-Smith; Michael Smith
- Important places
- Ohio, USA; Indiana, USA
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- Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
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- 364.1523 — Society, government, & culture Social problems and social services Crime Criminal offenses Offenses against the person Homicide Murder
- LCC
- HV6533 .O5 .F54 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Crimes and offenses
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