Summary of Karen Kingsbury's Final Vows

By IRB Media

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#1 On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.

#2 Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the trip could change their lives. She was a short woman of Italian descent who kept her dark hair attractively cut close to her plump face.

#3 Dan and Carol had been dating for about a year when they decided to get married. They would walk around the block every night, and every night, they passed Suzan Brown’s house. Her neighbors noticed that she was always in a wheelchair, seemingly without reason.

#4 Some of the neighbors on South Myers Street, a quiet street in Burbank, were suspicious of Suzan Brown. They believed she was buying and selling drugs, and that her boarders were committing burglaries.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: May 21, 2022
• ISBN: 9781669392880

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#1

On the evening of March 31, 1988, Carol Montecalvo reached into her dresser drawer for a pair of lightweight blue shorts, folded them neatly in half, and placed them inside her brown vinyl suitcase. She and her husband, Dan, were going on a trip to Hawaii.

#2

Carol, the winner of the company award, was planning the vacation with her husband. She believed that the trip could change their lives. She was a short woman of Italian descent who kept her dark hair attractively cut close to her plump face.

#3

Dan and Carol had been dating for about a year when they decided to get married. They would walk around the block every night, and every night, they passed Suzan Brown’s house. Her neighbors noticed that she was always in a wheelchair, seemingly without reason.

#4

Some of the neighbors on South Myers Street, a quiet street in Burbank, were suspicious of Suzan Brown. They believed she was buying and selling drugs, and that her boarders were committing burglaries.

#5

The next-door neighbor, Ralph Atwater, was caught up in a routine of his own that night. He prepared for bed and the 11 o’clock news. His wife thought it was odd that her husband liked to end his day watching the news, but he only laughed at her assessment.

#6

At 11:06, the Atwater dogs began barking. They were so loud that they would give away the police officer’s position. The Montecalvos’ next door neighbors, the Atwaters, had heard three gunshots, and their dogs had begun barking.

Insights from Chapter 2

#1

On March 8, 1964, the Burbank Police received a call from a hysterical man who said his wife had been shot. When officers arrived at 315 South Myers Street, they found two people shot. The man’s wife was dying, and he had been shot as well.

#2

When the frantic caller hung up on Janet the second time, she leaned back in her chair and frowned. She thought it was strange that the man had answered the phone so calmly at first, then become hysterical again after a second.

#3

The police officer, Rick Medlin, was the closest officer to the man when he shouted, Help me! I’ve been shot! Medlin immediately assumed the man was a suspect, and began shouting commands at him.

#4

Paramedics Kelly Chulik and Jeff Williams were the first to arrive at the scene. They saw the victim lying in a pool of blood. It did not look good. The woman’s eyes were open and lifeless, and her face was covered in dark red blood.

#5

The paramedics worked on the