The chilling true story of romantic obsession and murder by cancer
from the New York Times-bestselling author of The Search for the
Green River Killer.
Omaha, Nebraska, 1978. Sandy Johnson was in shock. Her husband, Duane,
and young daughter, Sherrie, were violently ill when word arrived that
her infant nephew just died of mysterious causes. Days earlier, the
entire family was happy, healthy, and living the American dream. Now
they were at the center of a terrifying medical crisis.
Duane soon died in a condition unlike anything the doctors had ever
seen. As they raced to discover what disease or toxin could have done so
much damage so quickly, Lt. Foster Burchard of the Omaha police began to
suspect foul play. Sandy herself became a primary suspect, as did her
ex-boyfriend Steven Harper--a man prone to violence who never got over
their breakup.
In Toxic Love, investigative reporter and true crime author Tomás
Guillén offers a detailed and vivid account of this baffling case from
the day of the poisoning to the harrowing trial and the murderer's
eventual suicide on death row.