If You Really Loved Me

If You Really Loved Me

By Ann Rule

Pages

604

Rating

4.11

Year

1991

True CrimeThrillerMysteryBiographyCrimeNonfiction

Description

David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two. When his beautiful young wife was shot to death as she slept, Brown's fourteen-year-old daughter, Cinnamon, confessed to killing her stepmother. The California courts sentenced her harshly: twenty-four years to life. But in the wake of Cinnamon's murder conviction, thanks in part to two determined lawmen, the twisted private world of David Brown unfolded with astonishing clarity — revealing a trail of perverse love, twisted secrets, and evil mind games. A complex and often dangerous investigation suggested a horrifying scenario: Was the seemingly bland David Brown really a stone-cold killer who convinced his own daughter to prove her love by killing for him? He turned young women into his own personal slaves, collected nearly $1 million in insurance money, and married his dead wife's teenage sister. David Brown was a sociopath who would stop at nothing — a deadly charmer who almost got away with everything.

There was only one way to please her father: murder his wife...