Incest, Murder and a Miracle: The True Story Behind the Cheryl Pierson Murder-For-Hire Headlines

✍ Scribed by Cuccio, Cheryl

• Book ID: 110150980
• Publisher: Cheryl Cuccio
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 2 MB
• Category: Fiction

✦ Synopsis

This is the true story of a sensationalized murder case told by Cheryl Pierson Cuccio and Rob Cuccio after nearly thirty years of silence. What really happened to Cheryl and Rob before, during and after Cheryl Pierson, a sixteen-year-old sexually, physically and mentally abused teen, hired a classmate to kill her father for $1,000 in 1986?The case was in the national media for many years. In 1988 a New York Times reporter wrote A Deadly Silence, a successful true crime book about this case using an investigative journalism style. It also became a TV movie. As a traumatized sixteen year old, Cheryl only gave one short interview 30 years ago, so much of what was reported in the media, book and movie was fabrication and speculation. Some accounts implied she lied about the abuse, others that she did it for her father’s insurance, but Cheryl remained silent for years�too young and destroyed to fight back against the speculation and frequent falsehoods or to discuss the true dark...