While She Slept

The true crime story of a Syracuse man's 1998 murder of his wife in her hospital bed to ensure her silence and the trial that followed. UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH…

By 1998, Jill and Jeff Cahill's marriage was already over. With a divorce pending, his life was in shambles. Then, a pre-dawn argument between them came to an end when Jeff crushed her skull with an aluminum baseball bat. Fearing her testimony in an assault trial, he slipped unnoticed into her Syracuse hospital room and gave her a dose of potassium cyanide, killing her instantly. It took the jury only five hours to find him guilty. BUT THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE AGAINST JEFF CAHILL WAS JUST BEGINNING…

Jeff Cahill's trial would provoke one of the most passionate and furious debates about the death penalty in recent New York history leaving Jill Cahill's grief-stricken family survivors to wonder... WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO SEAL HER KILLER'S FATE AS SURELY AS HE HAD SEALED HERS?

© 2005 St. Martin's True Crime (ספר דיגיטלי): 9781466819955

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ספר דיגיטלי: 28 ביוני 2005