While She Slept
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4.0 • 9 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
The true crime story of a Syracuse man's 1998 murder of his wife in her hospital bed to ensure her silence and the trial that followed.
UNDER PENALTY OF DEATH…
By 1998, Jill and Jeff Cahill's marriage was already over. With a divorce pending, his life was in shambles. Then, a pre-dawn argument between them came to an end when Jeff crushed her skull with an aluminum baseball bat. Fearing her testimony in an assault trial, he slipped unnoticed into her Syracuse hospital room and gave her a dose of potassium cyanide, killing her instantly. It took the jury only five hours to find him guilty.
BUT THE CONTROVERSIAL CASE AGAINST JEFF CAHILL WAS JUST BEGINNING…
Jeff Cahill's trial would provoke one of the most passionate and furious debates about the death penalty in recent New York history leaving Jill Cahill's grief-stricken family survivors to wonder...
WHAT WOULD IT TAKE TO SEAL HER KILLER'S FATE AS SURELY AS HE HAD SEALED HERS?
Customer Reviews
Stunned
Well written and devastatingly true. Finished this book in a few days. Compelled to know what happed to her life and understand how this could happen in a seemingly happy family.
The story seems to need a follow up. This book was written several years ago.
We all know what happened to OJ after his heinous crimes. Because of OJ’s crimes the nation and the world was immediately cued in to how (mostly men) can be overpoweringly deadly to women and children. We need a deeper dive into the psyche of Jeff Cahill.
Can someone look and act well adjusted and then “snap”? On the surface perhaps, but years of reading and hearing on the news or through other various ways we learn about these kind of killings we know there is or was more leading up to the final act or acts. Are there people who feel so entitled they think and feel they are entitled to acting out heinous crimes and not be punished? We all know now that is a resounding, yes! So, an update would be appreciated because although the events in this story are now close to 30years in the past, Jill’s story needs to be heard over and over again. Just as any story of this kind needs to be retold.