A Rose for Her Grave and Other True Cases by Rule Ann

Author:Rule, Ann [Rule, Ann]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Criminals, Randy, Mystery, Psychology, Biography, Murder, History, Crime, Roth
ISBN: 9780671793531
Amazon: 0671793535
Goodreads: 239830
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1993-08-01T07:00:00+00:00

A Rose for Her Grave

1954. He was a skilled mechanic. He had been married four times, divorced twice, widowed twice.

And he hated women. If he did not harm them physically, he left each woman who cared for him worse off in some way.

The question was, as it always was, why?

Gordon and Lizabeth Roth had come from Bismarck, North Dakota, to the Seattle area sometime in the late 1950's. Randy would have been five or six then. His brother David was born in Richardton, North Dakota, a crossroads with 600 citizens, three years later. No one could really say what the Roth siblings' childhoods had been like. Randy had told Ben and Marta Goodwin that he had been forced to kneel for hours on a hard floor. Were those memories true? Or were they simply part of the elaborate life story he had manufactured out of whole cloth? Randy's tales of childhood punishment would never be corroborated, but something had gone terribly wrong; both of Gordon and Lizabeth Roth's sons had been arrested for the murder of a woman. One had long since been convicted and the other was now awaiting trial.

The King County detective team could find little evidence of family solidarity among the Roths. Randy had shut the door against one sister and her babies on Christmas Eve. He had told so many lies about his mother that his friends really didn't know if she was dead or alive.

The Roths had apparently been staunch Catholics, but that hadn't prevented Gordon, a plumber, from leaving Lizabeth in 1971. Randy would have been about sixteen then. Gordon was ordered to pay his ex-wife $375 a month in child support. It wasn't enough; Lizabeth qualified for welfare. Randy, still in high school, worked at various jobs—in a feed store, at a gas station—to help support the family. His one dream had surely been to escape, to become like his

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