Few things in life cause a person to automatically feel sympathy for another human being when seeing them confined to a wheelchair. Your subliminal thoughts range from feeling sorry for the paraplegic’s unfortunate situation to thinking ‘Thank God’ that’s not me. It never enters your mind that a paraplegic could be an evil individual wanting to kill you.
This book reveals the contrasting lives of two young men who accidentally came together and changing their lives forever. One was a surfing dude from a prominent family in Hawaii who was attending USC in downtown Los Angeles. The other was a young man who had suffered an injury causing him to be restricted to a wheelchair. Even with this disability, he learned to drive his car with hand controls thereby enabling him to get around.
On one Friday evening the paraplegic was cruising the streets of L.A. looking for victims to rob. He spotted the USC student walking by himself along the deserted streets. He noticed that the student was talking on a cellphone but what really attracted his attention was the fact he was wearing the newest Nike sneakers. Pulling alongside the student, the paraplegic offered him a ride.
Since it was late and cold out, the student said, “Thanks” and jumped into the passenger seat. Shortly thereafter the paraplegic pulled a gun and fatally shot the student in the chest. Then he reached over and stole the student’s cellphone.
At that point the paraplegic was proud of his accomplishment. However, it wasn’t long before he realized he had a grave dilemma. As hard as the paraplegic tried, he couldn’t get the passenger door open in order to dump the student’s body in the street. As time went on, he began to panic as to what to do before the sun came up revealing he was driving around with a dead body next to him.
This book takes you, the True Crime reader, through the journey this killer went through to find someone who would help him dispose of the dead body. As you read on, you will learn who you can really count on when you are desperate. What’s interesting about this case was that the paraplegic almost got away with the murder. Learn how two LAPD detectives and a persistent prosecutor built a case against the killer. The big question became whether they could convince 12 jurors that the paraplegic was guilty of MURDER.
