Dance with the Devil by Daniel Bagby
In November 2001, the body of a young doctor named Andrew Bagby was discovered in Keystone State Park outside Latrobe, Pennsylvania, by a homeless man searching dumpsters for aluminum cans. The alleged murderer was his ex-girlfriend Shirley Turner - also a doctor. For parents Dave and Kate, the pain was unbearable.
Little did they know, however, that the worst was far from over. Shirley Turner - knowing charges would be laid against her - fled to her family home in Newfoundland. While fending off extradition efforts by U.S. law enforcement, she discovered she was pregnant with Andrew's son Zachary.
The Bagbys - hoping to gain custody of Zachary frustrated beyond endurance as the legal process dragged on interminably, and enable to make any headway with Canadian social services - moved from their home in California and settled in Newfoundland.
In August 2003, Shirley Turner murdered thirteen-month-old Zachary and then herself.
Dance with the Devils an angry, raw, and brutally honest memoir of the murder and loss. It is also an eye-popping and frankly terrifying indictment of the Canadian judicial and social welfare system that failed the Bagby's in nearly every way.
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