Jerry Bledsoe

The true story of Barbara Stager, a devoted mother, loving wife, and dedicated church leader who committed an almost perfect crime. By all accounts, Stager seemed to lead the perfect life in her community in Durham, North Carolina. After her husband, popular high school coach Russ, died tragically, the police were inclined to believe her story - that she accidentally shot him. Suspicions rose when the police discovered that Stager's previous husband had died similarly 10 years prior. Detective Rick Buchanan searches for the truth and finds a string of compulsive lies, obsessive spending, and sexual promiscuity. Every shocking new discovery unraveled Barbara Stager's impeccable image more and more.

A doctor who was banished from New Earth vows revenge and starts draining the knowledge from the brains of New Earth's scientists.

When North Carolina farmer Stuart Taylor died after a sudden illness, his 46-year-old fiancée Velma Barfield, was overcome with grief. Taylor's family grieved with her―until the autopsy revealed traces of arsenic poisoning. Turned over to the authorities by her own son, Velma stunned her family with more revelations. This wasn't the first time the born-again Christian and devout Sunday school teacher had committed cold-blooded murder. Tried by the "world's deadliest prosecutor," and sentenced to death, Velma turned her life around and gained worldwide attention With chilling precision,New York Times bestselling author Bledsoe probes Velma's stark descent into madness. From her harrowing childhood to the shocking crimes that incited a national debate over the death penalty, to the dark, final moments of her execution―broadcast live on CNN―Velma Barfield's riveting life of crime and punishment, revenge and redemption is true crime reporting at its most gripping and profound.

Relates how Bonnie Von Stein's well-loved son and his overprivileged friends, floating in a fantasy world of drugs, fast cars, and sex, bludgeoned her and killed her husband while they were sleeping in their North Carolina home

A North Carolina community college is wracked by controversy when a local reporter writes an article claiming that an adult community-outreach course on the Civil War taught that slaves in the South were happy.

A former columnist on the Greensboro (N.C.) News and Record and author of Bitter Blood , Bledsoe here writes of his journey back to Thomasville, the small N.C. town where he grew up. He introduces members of his clan, whose stories amuse and touch the heart. We meet a preacher cousin, who, as the collection plate is passed around, tells his flock, "If you had it to give and didn't, then we hope you stump your toe." Bledsoe compels affection for his enduring grandmother, Ma-Ma, not too old to hitchhike on her errands when necessary, and her opposite, a sister who traveled the world while Ma-Ma stuck to home. These are lovely accounts of the returning author, his wife and son becoming "country-cured" by friendships. Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc.