{"product_id":"insured-for-murder-9780879758424","title":"Insured for Murder","description":"All the ingredients of a first-rate thriller stand out in this investigative report by Robin Yocum and Catherine Candisky, who reveal a sinister and deadly con game that was three years in the making: a murder, an insurance scam with a multi-million dollar payoff, a playboy businessman, a sinister stun-gun-toting neurologist, false identities, and an international manhunt.On the morning of April 16, 1988, the emergency squad was called to the office of Dr. Richard P. Boggs, a respected neurologist in Glendale, California. On the floor of the examining room was the body of Melvin E. Hanson, the vice president of the Just Sweats athletic clothing store chain, based in Columbus, Ohio. Apparently, he had collapsed and died of heart failure during a routine examination. Early next morning, Hanson's business partner and the company president, John B. Hawkins, arrived from Columbus and had the body unceremoniously cremated. The coroner ruled that Hanson died of natural causes, so there was nothing to be investigated, and the Glendale police did not pursue the case further.But this wasn't just another unfortunate death. There was something very, very wrong here. The body lying on the floor was not Hanson's. The corpse was an anonymous double who had been murdered in a scheme to fraudulently collect on Hanson's life insurance policy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRobin Yocum\u003c\/b\u003e is the author of the critically acclaimed novels \u003ci\u003eFavorite Sons \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Essay\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003ci\u003eFavorite Sons\u003c\/i\u003e was named the 2011 \u003ci\u003eUSA Book News\u003c\/i\u003e' Book of the Year for Mystery\/Suspense. It was selected for the Choose to Read Ohio program for 2013-14 and was a featured book of the 2012 Ohioana Book Festival. Yocum is also the author of \u003ci\u003eDead Before Deadline . . . and Other Tales from the Police Beat \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eInsured for Murder\u003c\/i\u003e (with Catherine Candisky). He is the president of Yocum Communications, a public relations and marketing firm in Westerville, Ohio. He is well known for his work as a crime and investigative reporter with the \u003ci\u003eColumbus\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eDispatch \u003c\/i\u003efrom 1980-1991. He was the recipient of more than thirty local, state, and national journalism awards in categories ranging from investigative reporting to feature writing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatherine Candinsky\u003c\/b\u003e is the senior public affairs reporter and the statehouse reporter for the \u003ci\u003eColumbus Dispatch\u003c\/i\u003e. She has received dozens of regional and state reporting awards from the Associated Press, Society of Professional Journalists, Cleveland Press Club, and others.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"Prometheus Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51834622411026,"sku":"9780879758424","price":26.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_0a7c0c97-afc0-410b-838f-958550587460.jpg?v=1767095600","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/insured-for-murder-9780879758424","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}