Saving Annie Book Two:The Investigators
by Steve Jackson & Tom McCallum
2018
WildBlue Press

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In Book 2 of 'Saving Annie' we learn what the investigators discovered from the body of 23 year old Rhonda Casto, found dead on Eagle Creek Trail, Oregon in March of 2009. The "witness" that called 9-1-1, was her boyfriend, 34 year old Stephen Wagner Nichols, the father of Rhonda's daughter, Annie. The witness lacked emotion, the operator noted. When search and rescue volunteers found the body, the facts as stated by Nichols did not add up.
Investigators probed the past of Nichols and he became more suspect and suspicious as his true character was revealed. When Rhonda's mother, Julia Simmons told them she knew Nichols took out a 1.4 million life insurance policy 3 months before her death, and that he had had a sexual affair with Rhonda's sister when she was 15 and he was 30, he became the prime suspect in the case. This was not his first crime, they found.
Well written, easy to follow and quick to read, I enjoyed this true crime. Recommended. ( )