Summary of Ann Rule's A Fever in the Heart

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#1 In the third volume of my true crime files, I have chosen four cases that share a common theme: personal betrayal. The victims have trusted their killers over a long time, and in one case, the victims have put their faith too quickly in the wrong men.

#2 In 1975, the Friday before Thanksgiving was icy and bleak. In the spring, Yakima, and all of Yakima County, is scented by what seems like a continuous froth of apple and peach blossoms from a thousand orchards. However, in the last dark week of November 1975, Yakima was bitterly cold with lowering clouds that promised snow all day but never quite delivered by the time night fell.

#3 Gerda Lenberg lived in a duplex at 506 East Lincoln in Yakima. She always described where she lived precisely: On the right-hand side on the corner of Sixth and Lincoln-or off Lincoln and the alley. She was never really sure what time it was, but she could see it was somewhere between five or ten minutes after two in the morning.

#4 Dale Soost, a systems analysis programmer, was waiting for his friends to pick him up after hearing gunshots at 2:05 A. M. He noticed a woman walking down the lawn next to his apartment house. They figured she was coming out in her robe to get the morning Yakima Herald Republic.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 17, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822547698

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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

In the third volume of my true crime files, I have chosen four cases that share a common theme: personal betrayal. The victims have trusted their killers over a long time, and in one case, the victims have put their faith too quickly in the wrong men.

#2

In 1975, the Friday before Thanksgiving was icy and bleak. In the spring, Yakima, and all of Yakima County, is scented by what seems like a continuous froth of apple and peach blossoms from a thousand orchards. However, in the last dark week of November 1975, Yakima was bitterly cold with lowering clouds that promised snow all day but never quite delivered by the time night fell.

#3

Gerda Lenberg lived in a duplex at 506 East Lincoln in Yakima. She always described where she lived precisely: On the right-hand side on the corner of Sixth and Lincoln-or off Lincoln and the alley. She was never really sure what time it was, but she could see it was somewhere between five or ten minutes after two in the morning.

#4

Dale Soost, a systems analysis programmer, was waiting for his friends to pick him up after hearing gunshots at 2:05 A. M. He noticed a woman walking down the lawn next to his apartment house. They figured she was coming out in her robe to get the morning Yakima Herald Republic.

#5

Rowland Seal, the hunter, was confronted with the scene when he returned home. He could do nothing to help the man in the snow, so he helped the woman next door call the police.

#6

Olive Morgan Blankenbaker was one of four daughters born to Esther and Ray Morgan. She met Ned Blankenbaker in Yakima, and they began to date. She was a slender, beautiful young woman with marcelled curls and a sweet smile.

#7

Olive was married to Ned Blankenbaker, and they had a son, Morris, in 1942. But the marriage didn’t last, and Olive was left to raise Morris alone. She began working as a court reporter, and she spent time with her son camping trips.

#8

Morris was a handsome child with tight blond curls and brown eyes. He was always into athletic activities, and he was the star fullback on the football squad. He never had time for dating.

#9

Morris’s dreams of becoming a professional football player seemed less realistic than they had when he was in high school. Besides that, there was Jerilee. He barely knew her when he was in high school, but he got to know her well when he went back to Yakima to visit his hometown.

#10

Jerilee Karlberg was a teenager in the 1960s who was very popular with boys, but she