Summary of Ann Rule's Lying in Wait

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#1 I have covered thousands of criminal cases, and I have been able to winnow out the deluded and the liars early on. But not always. I had to take a closer look at Dana Rose, who had contacted me about a bizarre murder she had witnessed.

#2 The story of the nightmare that struck Athens is reduced to a few paragraphs and engraved upon a historic marker that sits smack in the middle of the lawn of Limestone County’s brick courthouse. It begins, Athens Sacked and Plundered, and briefly describes that dark May 2 in 1862 when Colonel John Basil Turchin turned loose his brigade of Union soldiers.

#3 Geneva Clemons was a protective mother, and she had longed for a little sister or brother. She was happy when she became pregnant with Tracy, her daughter.

#4 One night, Geneva was at the supermarket with her baby son, when a magazine photographer approached her to take his picture for a contest. She was not interested, but the stranger was persistent, and she eventually agreed.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 14, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547513

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Contents

Insights from Chapter 1

Insights from Chapter 2

Insights from Chapter 3

Insights from Chapter 4

Insights from Chapter 5

Insights from Chapter 6

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

I have covered thousands of criminal cases, and I have been able to winnow out the deluded and the liars early on. But not always. I had to take a closer look at Dana Rose, who had contacted me about a bizarre murder she had witnessed.

#2

The story of the nightmare that struck Athens is reduced to a few paragraphs and engraved upon a historic marker that sits smack in the middle of the lawn of Limestone County’s brick courthouse. It begins, Athens Sacked and Plundered, and briefly describes that dark May 2 in 1862 when Colonel John Basil Turchin turned loose his brigade of Union soldiers.

#3

Geneva Clemons was a protective mother, and she had longed for a little sister or brother. She was happy when she became pregnant with Tracy, her daughter.

#4

One night, Geneva was at the supermarket with her baby son, when a magazine photographer approached her to take his picture for a contest. She was not interested, but the stranger was persistent, and she eventually agreed.

#5

When Tracy was shot, she ran to her neighbor’s house, where her father’s aunt and uncle lived, crying, Mama! Mama! Help! Help! She had no other words to describe what had happened.

#6

The Malibu was speeding away from the scene of the crime when seven-year-old Dana Rose witnessed her mother shoot and kill a woman. She was terrified, but her sobs were soon replaced by soft sniffles as her stepfather smacked her across the face.

#7

The murder of Geneva Clemons was so cruel that it shocked the small Athens police force. The abductor had left the infant in a ditch by a field in Hartselle, Alabama, twenty-eight miles south of Athens.

#8

The Clemonses were unable to find the killer, and it was a woman with a child who had committed the crime.