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February 23, 2009
Jana Bommersbach MA'71
Bones in the Desert: The True Story of a Mother's Murder and a Daughter's Search, St. Martin's Press, 2008.
The book: Loretta Bowersock and her daughter, Terri, ran a successful furniture store and seemed to be living the American dream—until one man decided to take it all away. Taw Benderly had worked his way into Loretta's heart, home and business. Terri had always known that the handsome, charming and usually unemployed Taw was manipulating her mother, but she did not know the extent of the abuse. Then, Loretta went missing. It would be more than a year before Terri learned that, before killing himself, Taw murdered the 69-year-old Loretta.
The author: Jana Bommersbach is a journalist and author of "The Trunk Murderess: Winnie Ruth Judd," which was nominated for an Edgar Allan Poe Award and won Arizona's only literary prize. She has been Arizona's Journalist of the Year, won a Regional Emmy for her television writing and has been honored with two lifetime achievement awards for her reporting. She lives in Phoenix.
Posted by tobiaslw at February 23, 2009 05:20 PM