Evidence of Murder

by Bill McClellan

An account of the murder of Julie Post describes how Julie's husband, Ed, a successful real estate dealer, abused both his wife and his children before murdering his wife in a hotel bathroom.

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0451403479
• ISBN13: 9780451403476
• Release Date: February 1993
• Publisher: Onyx Books
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.44 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 4.2" x 6.9"

Customer Reviews

Well-written, well-researched

I bought this book when I saw the case and its author featured on a cable TV show. I believe it was American Justice. Bill McClellan has given us a good true crime story here.What aggravated me was the fact that no one seemed to think there was anything wrong with Ed Post knocking his wife, Julie, around ("Putting a woman in her place????" PUH-leese - shame Julie didn't respond with a frying pan or a lamp!). The fact that Post skipped out of the funeral home and put the moves on another woman in front of his own daughter made me SO glad that he didn't get away with his crime.Then there was the victim's father, Hollis Thigpen, who apparently had nothing but contempt for Vietnam veterans, even as his own son displayed the emotional and psychological scars from that debacle. Like many people my age, I vehemently opposed that war but never have I disparaged the people who fought. Mr. Thigpen should try telling those who've lost brothers, husbands, sons, etc. in Vietnam that it was just a "scratch scrimmage"!All in all, a good read. I don't understand how a previous reviewer could have called it "tedious."

It all adds up in the end...

Reading of crimes such as this, I cannot help but to wonder how many people get away with murders but disguising them as accidents. It is a chilling thought and this story was very well written.

One of the best true-crime books I've ever read.

McClellan has written a real page-turner. Ed Post talks too much. People roll their eyes when he says he drew his wife's bathwater--and then he found her dead, drowned in the tub...a real treat to follow the investigators as they put together the pieces of the puzzle. Very, very entertaining. I had trouble putting this one down!

GOOD STORY, WELL WRITTEN

This is a riveting story, right to the very last pages! And it is written in a terrific, readable journalistic style that never quits. WHY do men (usually men) continue to commit "domestic crimes" and think they can get away with it? This is an unusual story in some ways because of the lack of any real evidence. Great reading!