Fatal Friendship: A True Crime Account as Told by Allen Roberts, Esther Roberts, and Others

Fatal Friendship: A True Crime Account as Told by Allen Roberts, Esther Roberts, and Others
ISBN-10
0741434598
ISBN-13
9780741434593
Category
Kidnapping
Language
English
Published
2007
Author
Beecher Smith

Description

Wealthy businessman Allen Roberts comes home one afternoon to find his wife of 44 years, Doe, missing. That evening the kidnapper telephones, making ransom demands. The FBI comes in, but finds no leads, always returning to Allen as the prime suspect. When Allen begins dating an attractive widow, many start to think he is guilty. Allen?s most vocal accuser is his former friend and fellow Methodist church member, Charles Lord, a pillar of the community. Suspicious conduct by Lord eventually leads the investigators? to uncover evidence implicating him. When they confront Lord, he confesses to abducting and murdering Doe Roberts.

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