Murder by milkshake : an astonishing true story of adultery, arsenic, and a charismatic killer
When forty-year-old Esther Castellani died a slow and agonizing death in Vancouver in 1965, the official cause was at first undetermined. The day after Esther's funeral, her husband, Rene, packed up his girlfriend, Lolly; his daughter, Jeannine; and Lolly's son, Don, in the company car and took off for Disneyland. If not for the doggedness of the doctor who treated Esther, Rene, then a charismatic and handsome CKNW radio personality, would have been free to marry Lolly, who was the station's pretty twentysomething receptionist. Instead, Rene was charged with capital murder for poisoning his wife with arsenic-laced milkshakes in one of British Columbia's most sensational criminal cases of the century. Murder by Milkshake is the compelling story of the Castellanis, and of their daughter, Jeannine, who was eleven at the time of her mother's murder and who clung to her father's innocence, even committing perjury during his trial. Rigorously researched, and based on dozens of interviews with family, friends, and co-workers, Murder by Milkshake documents the sensational case that kept Vancouver spellbound, while providing a snapshot of the city's Mad Men-esque social and political realities in the 1960s.
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247 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm - Publisher [Place of publication not identified] : [publisher not identified], 2018.
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Murder by Milkshake : An Astonishing True Story of Adultery, Arsenic, and a Charismatic Killer
Section | Section Description | Page Number |
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Introduction | p. 9 | |
The Cast | p. 11 | |
Prologue | p. 15 | |
Chapter 1 | Abusive Beginnings | p. 17 |
Chapter 2 | The Willows | p. 31 |
Chapter 3 | The Maharaja | p. 41 |
Chapter 4 | The Attic | p. 51 |
Chapter 5 | The Dizzy Dialler Meets Lolly | p. 53 |
Chapter 6 | The Beatles | p. 69 |
Chapter 7 | Love, Lolly | p. 77 |
Chapter 8 | Turn for the Worse | p. 87 |
Chapter 9 | Guy in the Sky | p. 99 |
Chapter 10 | Rene and Lolly Look for a House | p. 105 |
Chapter 11 | Seriously III | p. 113 |
Chapter 12 | Disneyland | p. 117 |
Chapter 13 | Ombudsman of the Dead | p. 125 |
Chapter 14 | The Police Investigate | p. 133 |
Chapter 15 | Back at the Morgue | p. 143 |
Chapter 16 | The Inquest | p. 151 |
Chapter 17 | Arrested | p. 155 |
Chapter 18 | On Trial for Life | p. 167 |
Chapter 19 | The Summer of Love | p. 175 |
Chapter 20 | Circumstantial Evidence | p. 183 |
Chapter 21 | Death Row | p. 193 |
Chapter 22 | Living with Lolly | p. 197 |
Chapter 23 | Visiting Hours | p. 209 |
Chapter 24 | Out of Jail | p. 221 |
Chapter 25 | The Perfect Murder Weapon | p. 227 |
Epilogue | p. 233 | |
Bibliography | p. 237 | |
Acknowledgments | p. 240 | |
Index | p. 242 |