Summary of M. William Phelps's If Looks Could Kill

By IRB Media

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.

#1 It was a typical afternoon in Northeastern Ohio. The type of day when blackbirds, grazing together by the thousands in fields off to the side of the road, are spooked by the slightest sound and flutter away like a school of minnows.

#2 Carolyn heard a loud pop, and saw someone on a motorcycle inside the parking lot. She took off up the steep embankment, hoping to bag the kids, but when she made it around the corner, she noticed there wasn’t anyone around.

#3 When Mark got back to the tirebox, he heard Carolyn panicking over the PA system. He saw a motorcyclist stop near the SUV, turn toward Carolyn, and give her a threatening look. Then the motorcyclist sped off toward Home Avenue.

#4 In 1970, Ed Moriarty was a patrol officer for the Akron Police Department. He saw an ad in the newspaper for the police department, and applied. He became a patrol officer, and his life’s passion was born.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Apr 15, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669386261

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

It was a typical afternoon in Northeastern Ohio. The type of day when blackbirds, grazing together by the thousands in fields off to the side of the road, are spooked by the slightest sound and flutter away like a school of minnows.

#2

Carolyn heard a loud pop, and saw someone on a motorcycle inside the parking lot. She took off up the steep embankment, hoping to bag the kids, but when she made it around the corner, she noticed there wasn’t anyone around.

#3

When Mark got back to the tirebox, he heard Carolyn panicking over the PA system. He saw a motorcyclist stop near the SUV, turn toward Carolyn, and give her a threatening look. Then the motorcyclist sped off toward Home Avenue.

#4

In 1970, Ed Moriarty was a patrol officer for the Akron Police Department. He saw an ad in the newspaper for the police department, and applied. He became a patrol officer, and his life’s passion was born.

#5

Moriarty was promoted to sector sergeant in 1991, which put him in uniform again. He loved going to work, even though he was given the dreaded midnight-to-eight shift.

#6

On June 16, 2001, Sergeant Ed Moriarty was working on his paperwork when he was informed of a shooting at a fuel pump station in North Akron. He sent several detectives to the scene immediately.

#7

After being notified of what had taken place at BJ’s, Moriarty thought, Son of a bitch. Not BJ’s. A Saturday afternoon at BJ’s was as busy as a flea market on Sunday morning. He ran into the elevator, excited to begin the hunt.

#8

Jeffrey Zack, 44, left his house that morning to go vending. He was dressed in a white T-shirt, checkered shorts, a black leather belt. He had many different jobs, and would often take his son Ashton with him to help restock his vending machines. That day, he decided against taking Ashton with him.

#9

Jeff left his house and went to the Akron BJ’s to gas up his Ford Explorer and purchase supplies for his vending machines. He stopped at a neighborhood sale right around the corner from his house.

#10

The scene was packed with cars, but the crowd was not there to make a run on some special sale. People were curious about the man on the ground, who had blood all over his shirt and a bullet wound in his head.

#11

The crime scene was extremely well laid out, with only one shot being fired. The key to the case was the fact that there was only one bullet. It could have been a random act, but Moriarty thought that someone had sanctioned a professional hit on