Bitter Blood
A True Story of Southern Family Pride, Madness, and Multiple Murder
Penguin Publishing Group · Print & ebook · April 1, 1989
In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive love and bitter custody battles, Jerry Bledsoe recounts the shocking events that ultimately took nine lives...
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- Who it’s for
- Marriage, obsession, and murder make for a chilling true-crime read rooted in Southern family life.
- Themes
- Multiple murder, Obsessive love, Bitter custody battles
- Genres
- Murder & Homicide, Criminals & Outlaws, Mass Murder Cases
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In this powerful and riveting tale of three families connected by marriage and murder, of obsessive love and bitter custody battles, Jerry Bledsoe recounts the shocking events that ultimately took nine lives... The first bodies found were those of a feisty millionaire widow and her beautiful daughter in their posh Louisville, Kentucky, home.
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Months later, another wealthy widow and her prominent son and daughter-in-law were found savagely slain in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Mystified police first suspected a professional in the bizarre gangland-style killings that shattered the quiet tranquility of two well-to-do southern communities. But soon a suspicion grew that turned their focus to family. The Sharps. The Newsoms. The Lynches. The only link between the three families was a beautiful and aristocratic young mother named Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch. Could this former child "princess" and fraternity sweetheart have committed such barbarous crimes? And what about her gun-loving first cousin and lover, Fritz Klenner, son of a nationally renowned doctor?
Family Ties, Dark Turns
Marriage, obsession, and murder make for a chilling true-crime read rooted in Southern family life.
Come here for
- A case bound by family ties and bitter custody battles
- Linked killings that unsettle two well-to-do Southern communities
Expect
- A sustained account of family suspicion and shocking violence
- Questions surrounding Susie Sharp Newsom Lynch and Fritz Klenner
Where it sits
| Murder & Homicide | 66% |
|---|---|
| Mass Murder Cases | 37% |
| Criminals & Outlaws | 26% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Criminals & Outlaws
- Dysfunctional Families
- Serial Killers
- Authors
- Jerry Bledsoe
- Publisher
- Penguin Publishing Group
- Published
- April 1, 1989
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Multiple murder · Obsessive love · Bitter custody battles
- Reading lane
- Criminals & Outlaws