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I The bizarre true account of the husband-and-wife serial killers who terrorized the California ^T-^^ countryside W^ T van Hoffmann Eric AVommintliellloiHl Eric van Hoffmann Here is the chilling story ofthe only recorded case ofa husband-and-wife serial killer team, told by an ex-law enforcement officer with in- sider's access to all the personalities and docu- mentscrucialtothecase. In the scorching heat oflate summer, 1978, Gerald Armond Gallego, with his common-law wife Charlene Williams Gallego in tow, launched a series of brutal kidnap-rape- murders that would terrorize the California countryside and claim at least ten young lives within the space ofless than three years. Told largely from the point ofview ofthe Gallegos, this is the story ofhow a barren and lawless childhood led to a life ofcrime that ended in a longclimactic nightmare ofsex, drugs, kidnap- ping,assaultandmurdertorankwiththestories of such as Ted Bundy, Charles Manson and otherinfamous serialkillers. On September 13, 1978, two Mexican mi- grant workers crossed a drainage ditch in the rich open farmland southeast of Sacramento, California to examine what appeared to be a bundleofoldclothes. Theydiscoveredtheparti- ally clothed body ofa young woman who had been beaten, sexually abused and shot in the backofthehead. Thebody ofanother similarly brutalizedyoungwomanlaynearby. Andsobe- gan the trail that eventuadly led to the capture andconvictionofGeraldGallego,who, asofthis printing, awaits execution on death row in CarsonCity, Nevada. Basing his research on known details ofthe case, including Charlene Williams Gallego's blow-by-blow confession, and on more than thirty exclusive interviews with Gallego's mother, Lorraine Davies, who herselfdied re- (Continuedonbackflap) Digitized by the Internet Archive 2010 in http://www.archive.org/details/venominbloodOOvanh taom tlK Blood in Ifenoin the Blood in by von Eric liitflniiinn W DONALD FINE, INC. I. New York Copyright © 1990 by Eric Van Hoffmann All rights reserved, including the right ofreproduction in whole or in part in any form. Published in the United States ofAmerica by Donald I. Fine, Inc. and in Canada by General Publishing Company Limited. Manufactured in the United States ofAmerica Designed by Irving Perkins Associates 1-55611-206-8 To my sister, LCH, whose immeasurable help and advice made this book possible.
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