Public attention and scrutiny has dimmed following most of these notable, tragic and publicized events, deaths and murders. Each included historical profile spawns a secondary tale concerning the surviving victims, intimate family coping with loss and the consequential aftermath. The edition highlights sixty momentous and obscure calamities and their profound effect on those left behind. In some instances the immediate trauma and impact has become lethal. In other instances, the road towards recovery has generated a profound influence on others. These accompanying survivor biographies are equally compelling and represent an important continuity to a larger perspective of understanding.
Volume One is a compilation of sixty combined well-documented and obscure biographies. They include:
Jimi Hendrix’s Accidental Overdose and The Sole Witness
James Dean’s Fatal Collision and the Two Survivors
The Decadent Decline of Doors’ Lead Singer Jim Morrison and his companion Pam Courson
The Zodiac Serial Killer: Taunting Authorities
Lady Diana Spencer’s Fatal Paris Crash
Ted Bundy: The Man Who Lived To Kill Women
Singer Kurt Cobain’s Prelude and Final Act
Actor Errol Flynn’s Final Debauchery
Gangster Al Capone’s desperate venereal disease treatment and his Chicago Outfit gang
The Washington D.C. Beltway Victims and Survivors
The Enduring Art Legacy of Pablo Picasso
Gary Hart’s Aborted Presidential Campaign
Writer Oscar Wilde’s fall and the Consequences To His Immediate Family
The Curse That Befell Abraham Lincoln’s box office companions following his assassination
The Green River Killer and His Naive Wife
The Corruptible Legacy of the Marquis de Sade and his wife’s penitence
The Two Wives Behind Napoleon Bonaparte’s Rise and Fall and his son
The Celebrated Trip to Return To America and Return to France by General Lafayette
Congressman Daniel Sickles Killing Inside Washington D.C.’s Lafayette Park over his wife’s Infidelity
The Unmarked Grave For Assassin John Wilkes Booth
Marion Clover Adams cursed by the constraints of her gender and husband Writer Henry Adams
Theo and Johanna Van Gogh’s Contribution to making Vincent Van Gogh internationally renowned
The Adventurous Fury and Flameout of Writer Jack London and wife Charmian Kittredge-London
The Debilitating Demise of Woodrow Wilson and his surviving wife
Edith Bolling-Wilson
The Biddle Brothers Pittsburgh Prison Escape and Accomplice Kate Soffel
Murderous Revenge and Suicides Spawned By The Brides of Christ Cult
The Duchess of Windsor’s Upbringing and life following the death of King Edward VIII
A Tragic Bohemian Amedeo Modigliani and his distraught Mistress Jeanne Hebuterne
President Warren Harding and his vindictive wife Florence
The Philosophical Contraction of Jean-Paul Sartre and Literary Comrade Simone de Beauvoir
Gertrude Stein’s Fawning Over Nazism and her neglected companion Alice B. Toklas
The Pathetic Final Acts For F. Scott Fitzgerald and wife Zelda
FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover and his intimate Associate Clyde Tolson
American Wartime Spy Virginia Hall’s Posthumous Recognition
Yves Klein Obsession With Cobalt Blue and Fatal Film Viewing
Edwin Pratt’s Seattle Civil Rights Murder
Presidential Campaigner George Wallace’s Wounding and Survival
Bruce and Brandon Lee’s Youthful Stolen Legacies
Spiro Agnew’s Vice Presidential Resignation
Dr. Marcus Foster Assassination and Aide Robert Blackburn’s survival
The Zebra Killings: A Racially Intended Genocide?
A Classic Mob Contract Killing Of Tamara Rand
A Baltimore City Councilman’s Death Amidst A Shooting Rampage
Diane Downs: A Sordid Mother’s Shooting of Her Children
Mulugeta Seraw fatal beating by Portland skinheads
Doug Carlile’s Murder For Hire Over Oil Field Leases
Brittany Maynard’s Death With Dignity Crusade and Aftermath
And Numerous Additional Stories…
