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  • Rough Trade

  • A Shocking True Story of Prostitution, Murder, and Redemption
  • By: Steve Jackson
  • Narrated by: Kevin Pierce
  • Length: 8 hrs and 52 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (17 ratings)
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By: Steve Jackson
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Summary

Early one morning in May, 1997, a young couple on their way to work in the mountains of Colorado spotted a man dragging a body up a secluded trail. The beautiful, densely wooded area off a dirt road seemed such an incongruous place for a violent crime that at first the couple had a hard time believing what they were seeing. It was all too real; the man fled, leaving behind a bloody, dying woman.

Indeed, the investigation into the death of young street-walker Anita Paley would lead from that idyllic spot to the seamy underbelly of Denver and a world of prostitution, drug dealers, and violent criminals. And it would expose the lives of two of that world's inhabitants, the suspect Robert Riggan and Anita's friend Joanne Cordova, a former cop-turned-crack-addict and hooker.

In the past, Cordova had submitted to violent sex with Riggan in exchange for drugs; it was just part of her life on the mean streets. But when her friend Anita was murdered, Joanne had to make a choice. She could face the humiliation and go to her former colleagues on the police department and tell them what she suspected, which would also put her own life in danger as "snitch", or she could look the other way and let a suspected killer walk free and continue his violent attacks on women. But which would she choose?

©2016 Steve Jackson (P)2016 WildBlue Press

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Wow the woman was a cop then turned into a CW wow and that evil psycho how he get away with it for so long america back then omg whats with 2 pretty women marrying this evil ugly man

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Compelling take of drugs, sex workers, death

Gripping and disturbing story of how very easy it is to fall from grace
Brliant

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Different view of the crime

A very interesting true crime story.
Well written and researched.
Sometimes a story needs to be told.

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