Richard was a weak, naive man and he met this fourth wife, Alice, in a mental hospital where she worked and he was a patient. Virginia was Richard Uden's third wife and she talked him into adopting her two sons after they married, which he did, and then she promptly divorced him. This is a powerfully gripping, very sad, story of the disappearance of Virginia Uden and her sons Richard and Reagen on September 12, 1980. That is, until 2013, almost forty years later, when somebody finds a dead man's skeleton in a place where Alice thought he'd never be found.įeaturing a femme fatale whose manipulative, cold-blooded character rivals Lady Macbeth, this page-turner by bestselling true-crime author Ron Franscell revisits a shocking cold case that was finally solved just when the murderers thought they'd never be caught.more With Alice's help, he "fixes" the problem in an extraordinarily ghastly way.
But when her new love's ex-wife and two kids start demanding more of him, Alice delivers an ultimatum: Fix the problem or lose her forever. The appalling details are made even more vivid by the author's familiarity with the Wyoming times and places that formed the backdrop of his national bestseller The Darkest Night.Īfter Alice, a desperate young mother in a gritty Wyoming boomtown, kills her husband in 1974 and dumps his body where it will never be found, she slips away and starts a new life with a new love.
Would you kill for love? After Alice, a desperate young mothe True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of a cold case involving multiple murders committed by a husband-and-wife team. The appalling details are made even more vivid by the author's familiarity with the Wyoming times and places that formed the backdrop of his national bestseller The Darkest Night. True-crime master Ron Franscell tells the grisly story of a cold case involving multiple murders committed by a husband-and-wife team.