{"product_id":"murder-on-a-lonely-road-a-beauty-queen-a-privileged-killer-and-a-twenty-five-year-search-for-justice-9780425250341","title":"Murder on a Lonely Road: A Beauty Queen, a Privileged Killer, and a Twenty-Five Year Search for Justice","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): George Pawlaczyk\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Penguin Publishing Group\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Murder - Serial Killers\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA brutal murder that shocked residents of Missouri--and a killer it took 25 years to bring to justice... \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOn June 17, 1985, twenty-year-old beauty pageant winner Jackie Johns's car was found abandoned, the interior drenched in blood. Four days later, her bludgeoned, nude body was found floating in a nearby lake. Sheriff Dwight McNiel vowed to catch Jackie's killer, however long it took. His prime suspect: local rich kid Gerald Carnahan. But despite suspicions, the evidence never managed to add up, and Carnahan slipped away again and again. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThroughout the next two decades, multiple other women went missing, some murdered, some never found. Fearful residents believed that a murderous bogeyman was connected to all these crimes. Carnahan's conviction on the attempted kidnapping charge of another young woman brought his name into the mix over and over again--but all of the cases remained unsolved for decades, until a highway patrol sergeant sent DNA from the Jackie Johns's murder for testing and came up with a quadrillions-to-one match to Carnahan. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis is the true account of a murderer who thought he was beyond punishment, and the lawmen who would not relent until justice was finally done.","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45354282025111,"sku":"9780425250341","price":742.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780425250341.webp?v=1767669439","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/murder-on-a-lonely-road-a-beauty-queen-a-privileged-killer-and-a-twenty-five-year-search-for-justice-9780425250341","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}