Mountain Madness: A True Story of Murder, Guilt, & Innocence - Hardcover

Taylor, Jimmy Dale

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0882821482 ISBN 13: 9780882821481

Publisher: New Horizon Press, 1996

Synopsis

When police arrested her husband Jimmy for a murder that took place twenty-one years ago, Jeannie Taylor was sure they had the wrong min.
What really happened long ago on that dark night when a pretty hitchhiker was nearly raped and killed and a man died is told in this riveting suspense thriller. Mountain Madness is about good and evil, truth and falsehood and guilt and innocence.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

When the police in Oklahoma arrested her husband, Jimmy, on a charge of first degree murder, Jeannie Taylor was certain they had the wrong man. Not only had she and Jimmy been together for seventeen years, but they had three children. However, one's past is never far behind, nor can history ever be erased. Deputies from Oregon had his fingerprints, found atop Dead Indian Mountain near Glenn True Clark's dead body. A new police computer had targeted the fugitive. It mattered not that the crime was twenty-one years old.

From Publishers Weekly:

Bizarre is probably an accurate description for this story of a romantic love that endured beyond the grave. German immigrant Georg Karl Tanzler, aka Count Carl von Cosel, working as an X-ray technician in Key West, Fla., fell in love with a patient, Elena Milagro Hoyos Mesa, who was dying of tuberculosis. A staunch Catholic deserted by her husband, she rejected Cosel's pleas to marry him. She died in late 1931. About 18 months later, Cosel took her decaying corpse from the mausoleum he had built for it and began to "reconstruct" his beloved out of wax and plaster of paris and to sleep beside her every night. In 1940, he was discovered, was adjudged sane, but suffered no penalties. In 1946 he wrote his account of the story, quoted extensively here, and died in 1952 at age 75. While Cosel admitted that he often kissed Elena's body, in 1972 a doctor revealed Cosel also had sexual relations with the corpse. Singer/freelance writer Harrison thinks this revelation will not alter the public perception of Cosel as a tragic lover?a debatable conclusion. Not debatable, however, is the awkwardness of the writing ("Despite her condition, Elena's beauty had not faded. If anything, her beauty had been enhanced by the tragedy of her illness, a tragedy which rested in the darkness of her eyes"). Photos not seen by PW. 30,000 first printing.
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About this edition

• Publisher: New Horizon Press
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0882821482
• ISBN 13: 9780882821481
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 200