Tony Adame

Chase the Devil (eBook, PDF)

Murder and Obsession on Florida's Gulf Coast

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A police detective and an investigative journalist team up in secret to try and solve a series of rapes and murders from the early 1980s on Florida's Gulf Coast, hoping to crack the cold case that has passed through generations of detectives. On December 31, 1984, Tonya Ethridge McKinley was out with friends celebrating New Year's Eve and the start of her new life in Pensacola, Florida. Finally free from an abusive relationship, she was just weeks from her 24th birthday and moving toward becoming the person she'd always wanted to be. When Tonya's body was found dumped on the side of the road, half-naked, raped, beaten, and choked to death in the early-morning hours of New Year's Day, it was the first of two unsolved rapes and murders in the same area in the first two months of the year. Chase the Devil takes readers back to that rainy December night in 1984 and barrels forward like a freight train, moving across the decades and diving into the details of the crime and inside the lives of the victims and their families, the suspects, and the law enforcement officers who kept the case alive. With original reporting and unprecedented access to investigators, case files, and FBI reports kept hidden for decades, investigative journalist Tony Adame immerses readers in the investigation and tries to answer the questions of what really happened to Tonya that night and who took her life.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 198
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798881863012
• Artikelnr.: 75076650

Autorenporträt

Tony Adame lives on Florida's Gulf Coast and is also the writer and host of the award-winning podcast and long-form series The Sheriff: Murder, Lies & Revenge in Okaloosa County. His work has been honored by the Florida Society of News Editors and the Associated Press Sports Editors Awards. Tony has worked at The Wichita (Kan.) Eagle, Pensacola (Fla.) News Journal ,and the Northwest Florida Daily News. Chase the Devil is his first book.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1: New Year's Eve, 1984
Chapter 2: Devil's Point
Chapter 3: Our Darling
Chapter 4: Tonya
Chapter 5: Fumble
Chapter 6: Casefile 1985
Chapter 7: Web of Lies
Chapter 8: Quantico
Chapter 9: Prime Suspect
Chapter 10: The Shoebox
Chapter 11: [e-mail]
Chapter 12: Rabbit Hole
Chapter 13: Dying in Spanish Fort
Chapter 14: Chuck and the Missing Girl
Chapter 15: The Civilian
Chapter 16: Endgame
Chapter 17: "A Deep, Dark Hole"
Chapter 18: Old Dogs
Chapter 19: The Pharmacist's Son
Chapter 20: The Retirement Party
Epilogue
Appendix: Personal Journal (May 2019-May 2020)
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index
About the Author