You'll Never Find My Body

by Don Lasseter and Ronald E. Bowers

No Evidence. . . On April 22, 1991 three young children waited for their mother, Ann Racz, to return with a takeout dinner. Instead, their father showed up with a small bag of cold French fries and said their mother had gone away. Ann's children didn't believe it. Neither did her friends. And neither did the police. But there was zero evidence that anything had happened to Ann. No Body. . . Los Angeles detectives dug furiously into the case, grilling John Racz and searching for clues. But without a body, the investigation stalled, and three children grew up wondering what had happened to their loving mother--and if their father had killed her. And A Killer In Plain Sight. . . Fourteen years later, a brilliant female prosecutor defied the legal establishment and delved into the cold case, uncovering shocking information about Ann and her relationship with John. Suddenly, a crusading prosecutor was up against the most difficult kind of murder case of all: to prove beyond a reasonable doubt that John Racz had murdered his wife--despite the fact that her body was never found. . . With 16 pages of photos

• Format: Mass Market Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 078601928X
• ISBN13: 9780786019281
• Release Date: January 2009
• Publisher: Pinnacle Books
• Length: 373 Pages
• Weight: 0.46 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 4.2" x 6.7"

Customer Reviews

Attractive wife vanishes, and husband has little to say

If you like true crime books but sometimes shy away because they are too grisly, ''You'll Never Find My Body'' may interest you. This book is more of a missing person/presumed murder story than a gruesome crime event. And the case is quite interesting! The book covers the mysterious disappearance of Ann Racz, who was a married, forty-something mother of three living in a comfortable Southern California suburb. On the surface she had it good - nice children, a decent home, a handsome husband, and lots of friends. However, he husband was controlling, stingy, and aloof. Eventually she filed for divorce. Not long after Ann moved out of the Racz home and took the children with her, she suddenly disappeared. There were few clues to go on besides her estranged husband insisting she had left on an extended vacation by herself. But he showed little interest in finding her, and the police could find no evidence that he had harmed her. I found the book to be interesting because the author presents a lot of information about the victim. Ann Racz was intelligent, well-spoken, and fairly attractive. She was not the type to just run-off, but the police could not charge her husband with the crime because there was no body and no weapon. Ann Racz simply vanished! My only complaint is that the author sometime goes overboard on the details, and some were repeated at times in the book. He also tacks-on some similar crime cases that had occurred in the 1950s, which were interesting but veered away from the main topic. But the author managed to keep the ending a surprise, which made this a 4-star book!