Paperback: This new updated edition - Poisoned Love (2011) - provides sensational revelations about Kristin Rossum's claim of innocence, including a recent appeals court decision that may reopen the case to new investigations and media attention.
Accident, Suicide or Murder?
On 6 November 6 2000, paramedics answered a call to find Kristin Rossum, 24, sobbing. Her husband, Greg de Villers, wasn't breathing and she claimed he had overdosed on drugs after learning she was leaving him. But family and friends who knew of Greg's distaste for drugs weren't buying Kristin's story - particularly the idea that he would take his own life.
American Beauty
The daughter of a well-to-do California family, Rossum was a brainy blonde beauty whose talent for toxicology had won her a post at the San Diego Count Medical Examiner's Office. But her sweet smile masked a dark side. She had developed a taste for methamphetamine in high school, and six months after her marriage to Greg, she had begun seeking secret trysts with other men.
Toxic Passion
At the time of her husband's death, Rossum was engaged in an illicit affair with her married boss. Investigations found that the Medical Examiner's Office was missing supplies of meth and fentanyl, the narcotic that had killed her husband. With each clue discovered, another piece of Rossum's "good girl" façade fell away. What the world would eventually see was the true face of a murderer - and the hand of justice.
About the author: Caitlin Rother, a Pulitzer Prize nominee, worked as an investigative reporter at daily newspapers for nineteen years before deciding to write books full-time. Her work has been published in Cosmopolitan, the Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Chicago Tribune, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe and The Daily Beast. She has appeared as a crime expert on E! Entertainment, the Oxygen Network, Investigation Discovery, Greta Van Susteren’s “On the Record,” XM Radio and the American Radio Network. She also teaches narrative non-fiction, journalism, and creative writing at UCSD Extension in San Diego, CA, where she resides. Rother covered the Rossum case from arrest to sentencing, did all new interviews after the trial, and has now brought readers up to date on the latest developments.
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