In A Child's Name by Peter Maas

In A Child's Name by Peter Maas

In 1984, the hideously beaten body of Teresa Benigno Taylor, a young wife and mother, was found in a remote ditch in eastern Pennsylvania. Almost immediately suspicion focused on her husband, Dr. Kenneth Taylor, an engaging, successful dentist. Slowly, local investigators uncovered the dark truth of Taylor's past - a secret history of deception and violence. Taylor abandoned his first wife in her ninth month of pregnancy and tried to chloroform to death his second wife, and was suspected of savagely beating his third wife, Teresa, on their Mexican honeymoon - foreshadowing his terrible crime against her.

At his headline-making trail Taylor was convicted, but for Teresa's family the anguish had just begun. Pitting Taylor's Midwestern parents against Teresa's Italian-American family in New York City, a bitter custody battle over the couple's infant son ensued, a struggle as spellbinding s the murder and trial.

IN A CHILD'S NAME is the shocking true story of this brutal murder and the explosive passions it unleased. With an investigative reporter's zeal for truth and a novelist's talent for narrative, Peter Maas probes the perverse life of Kenneth Taylor and the lasing agony inflicted on those who loved him.