Summary of Ann Rule's But I Trusted You

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#1 There are infinite variations on the motive, means, and excuses for the darkest crime of all: murder. Some are unpremeditated and leave the killer full of remorse, while other homicides sink to the cruelest depths imaginable and the murderers feel absolutely no twinge of conscience.

#2 The 1960s were a time of great change in America, with the love generation giving way to a more sexually curious and open society. Butswingers’ lifestyles were still dangerous, and they ended up in divorce court.

#3 Dark Forest: Deep Danger is about a case I first investigated in the 1970s. In some sense, it remains almost as mystifying today as it was then.

#4 Teresa Gaethe was a concierge at a fine hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, when she met school counselor Charles Chuck Leonard in 1988. She had a college degree, but she often exaggerated that fact. She had a boyish figure and kept her nails long and lacquered red.

• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jul 30, 2022
• ISBN: 9798822550988

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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 7

Insights from Chapter 1

#1

There are infinite variations on the motive, means, and excuses for the darkest crime of all: murder. Some are unpremeditated and leave the killer full of remorse, while other homicides sink to the cruelest depths imaginable and the murderers feel absolutely no twinge of conscience.

#2

The 1960s were a time of great change in America, with the love generation giving way to a more sexually curious and open society. Butswingers’ lifestyles were still dangerous, and they ended up in divorce court.

#3

Dark Forest: Deep Danger is about a case I first investigated in the 1970s. In some sense, it remains almost as mystifying today as it was then.

#4

Teresa Gaethe was a concierge at a fine hotel in New Orleans, Louisiana, when she met school counselor Charles Chuck Leonard in 1988. She had a college degree, but she often exaggerated that fact. She had a boyish figure and kept her nails long and lacquered red.

#5

Teresa told Chuck that she was lucky to be alive, and that she had survived open-heart surgery when she was a child. She showed him the scars left from her cardiac operations, and he worried about her. He thought she might be protesting too much when she said she had no lingering effects from such drastic surgery at a young age.

#6

Teresa knew that Nick was wealthy because he had shown her many of the properties he owned. She sometimes wondered what her life would have been like if Nick had chosen her instead of his wife, Grace.

#7

When Chuck was at Fort Lewis, he got a brilliant idea: he would start a pie business. His wife, Reisa, taught him how to make them, and he sold out of his locker for a good profit. But his sergeant found out and made him eat all the pies left in his locker.

#8

Teresa was aloof and cold with her in-laws, and she kept them at arm’s length. She was warm and seductive with Chuck and his father,