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A study of the impact of crime on a rural town profiles the case of Esther Steele, who was killed after returning home from her local parish one evening, becoming the first murder victim in the long history of the town of Granite
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In 1986, Esther Steele, a 73-year-old resident of Granite, Okla., was raped and murdered in her bed. The case was not difficult to solve as members of the State Bureau of Investigation fixed on two ne'er-do-wells, each of whom still claim that the other had entered the victim's home alone and killed her. Bugs Adams pleaded guilty and testified against Wayne Sadler; both were sentenced to life. While Sanders's ( Hamlet Warning ) primary focus is on the slaying, he also shows how the murder opened a Pandora's box of revelations about drug trafficking in Granite and led to the appointment of Charles Jones as police chief; he was determined to enforce every law. He did not last long but helped dispel residents' illusions that Granite was an idyllic village.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
In April 1987 tiny Granite, Oklahoma, was still a town of open people and open doors. Then, on a blustery night, the realities of the modern world crept through one of those unlocked doors, and a respected ex-schoolteacher was raped and murdered in her bed. This is the story of the investigation into the killing of 73-year-old Esther Steele, the apprehension of two suspects, and the trial of one of them. It is also a tale of dubious justice as, seven years after the crime, the question of which of the pair actually killed Steele remains unanswered. It is, finally, the story of a town's loss of innocence, of the further passing of a kinder, gentler way of life. The telling is competently, if not compellingly, done. Recommended for larger true crime collections.
Jim Burns, Ottumwa, Ia.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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