Bloody Love. The Story of a Girl Who Killed Her Family for a Man Twice Her Age

A shocking real story of a 15-year-old girl ready to kill her entire family for a man twice her age—by the classic of American true crime literature.

When businessman Frank Columbo, his wife Mary, and their 13-year-old son Michael were brutally murdered in their suburban home outside Chicago, one thought ran through everyone’s head: who will tell their daughter Patty? But Patty already knew. The fifteen-year-old girl was a sexual slave of the adult married man Frank DeLucia—desperately, blindly devoted to him. When her parents learned about their daughter’s shocking secret life, the enraged father threatened to kill both of them. But the lovers struck first, leaving behind a scene of horrifying slaughter…

Sentenced to many years for killing her father, mother, and brother, Patricia in prison tells the writer Clark Howard what led her and DeLucia to the tragic ending.

But as it happens wherever big passions are involved, it is not only a story of family skeletons in the closet and dependence on a manipulative sociopath—it’s also a story about an unreliable narrator, and Howard himself will have to analyze evidence and testimony to get to the truth…