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Jack Olsen George Russell, Jr.  |
Charmer: A Ladies' Man and his Victims is a true crime story about George Russell, Jr., a charismatic young African American from an affluent Seattle suburb who targeted and killed three beautiful women and whose charming outward appearance kept him from suspicion.
George Walterfield Russell,
Jr., was born in 1958 in Florida. When he was six months old,
his mother left home to get an education leaving him in the care of his
grandmother and four aunts. When he was six years old, his mother came back and took him to Mercer Island, Washington, to live with her and
her new dentist husband while she taught at the University of Washington.
His mother and stepfather split up when he was fifteen, and she went east to
teach at the University of Maryland.
Russell chose to remain with his stepfather in the wealthy Mercer Island
community.
When Russell was 17, his stepfather kicked him out of the house because of his
many arrests for breaking and entering, trespassing, vandalism, and drug
dealing. Russell then moved to nearby Bellevue.
On June 22, 1990, Russell picked up Mary Ann Pohlreich, his first victim, at a local bar. He raped and murdered her leaving her nude body in a restaurant parking lot with her legs crossed, her arms folded across her abdomen, a fir cone in one hand and a plastic container lid on her forehead.
On August 9, 1990, he broke into the home of Carol Beethe, beating her to death and inflicting severe trauma to the corpse. She was found wearing only red high-heeled shoes and had a shotgun between her legs.
On September 3, 1990, he broke into the home of Andrea Levine and beat her to death. After she was dead, he cut her more than 200 times with a table knife, shoved a vibrator in her mouth, and put a copy of More Joy of Sex in her left hand.
On September 12, he was arrested on a misdemeanor. When the police searched him, they found a gun that was traced back to a house that had been burglarized. At the house were he was staying, they found a bag containing a hair from Beethe's head, and a DNA test found his semen in Pohlreich's body. He was tried and convicted of all three murders, and sentenced to life in prison with no possibility of parole.
Other best selling books by Jack Olsen
with case
backround:
The Man with the Candy: The Story of the Houston Mass Murders (1974) - A brilliant, investigative, journalist's story of the mass murder of almost 30 young boys in Houston by Dean Corll, a homosexual owner of a candy factory, and his two teen-aged accomplices, Elmer Wayne Henley, Jr., and David Brooks.
SON: A Psychopath and His Victims (1983) is the story of Kevin Coe, Spokane's South Hill rapist whose rich and influential mother was sent to prison after trying to hire a hit man to kill the judge and prosecutor who convicted her son.
Give a Boy a Gun: The True Story of Law and Disorder in the American West (1985)- "Give a boy a gun and you're makin' a man," Claude Dallas, Sr., said this about his son, Claude Jr., a self-made cowboy, trapper, and "mountain man'' who was convicted of manslaughter in the shooting deaths of two Idaho game wardens. Was this a case of self-defense or outright murder?
Cold Kill:
The True Story of a Murderous Love
Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell (1989) is an incredible account of a rural Wyoming doctor who relied on his patients' naiveté and Mormon female submissiveness to rape generations of women on his examining table.
Predator: Rape, Madness, and Injustice in Seattle (1991) - This book focuses on three men: McDonald ("Mac") Smith, a serial rapist who preyed on women; Steve Titus, a carefree partygoer who was wrongly convicted of the predator's crimes; and Paul Henderson, a reporter for the Seattle Times who won a Pulitzer Prize for tracking down the truth.
The Misbegotten Son: A Serial Killer and His Victims (1993)- An account of the life and crimes of convicted killer Arthur Shawcross describes how Shawcross, after being found guilty of the murders of two children, was released only to murder eleven prostitutes.
Salt of the Earth: A Mother, A Daughter, A Murder (1996) - Joe Gere said he died on the afternoon his twelve-year-old daughter Brenda disappeared. It was left to Brenda's mother Elaine to sustain her stricken family, search for her missing child, and pressure the authorities for justice. From the first minutes of the investigation, suspicion fell on Michael Kay Green, a steroid-abusing "Mr. Universe" hopeful, but there was no proof of a crime, leaving police and prosecutors stymied.
Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation (1998) - This true crime features a delightful hero: a female private investigator who calls herself "Rat Dog Dick." Rat Dog relies on an ancient Everex 286 computer (Evil Evie), a Toyota Tercel (The Frog Prince) that is so outrageously green it's useless for surveillance, and a big, funny-looking dog (Beans). Once she gets her teeth into the "Foxglove" case in which several old people have dwindled and died quickly after being "befriended" by a local Gypsy family, Rat Dog is outraged that the police are ignoring clear evidence of elder abuse.
Last Man Standing: The Tragedy and Triumph of Geronimo Pratt (2000) - This is a story of true crime American injustice. Pratt, a war hero and leader of the Black Panther Party, was convicted of murder based on the perjured testimony of a paid FBI informant. After spending twenty-seven years in prison, he was finally declared innocent and released.
I: The Creation of a Serial Killer (2002) - In February 1990, Oregon State Police arrested John Sosnovke and Laverne Pavlinac for the vicious rape and murder of 23-year-old Taunja Bennet. Pavlinac had come forth and confessed, implicating her boyfriend and producing physical evidence that linked them to the crime. Authorities closed the case. There was just one problem. They had the wrong people...
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