This Friday afternoon we’ll depart from the usual. Instead, I’d like to share a real-life crime book, “A Cold-Blooded Business: Love, Adultery, and Murder in a Small Kansas Town”, written by MainStreet contributor Marek Fuchs.
It does, however, have a tangential connection to personal finance. No, not Marek’s previous life as a stockbroker. Nor is it the fact that one of the murderers held a series of high-level corporate positions. (After all, aren’t we all wondering about the honesty and intentions associated with the bailout money?)
The connection between true crime and personal finance is this: two kinds of potential victims. In personal finance the victims are frequently, but not exclusively, self-made — through poor choices, poor attitudes, or poor planning. Crime victims are another story all together….
This story starts in a small Kansas town. A man named David Harmon trusts his spouse and best friend. What begins very innocently leads to a brutal murder. Worse, the two killers walk free for over twenty years. During these years the killers enjoy privileged lifestyles. One moves up the corporate ladder and into one of the toniest Manhattan suburbs — pleading innocence to the very end.
How could this happen? Why were these criminals protected, and who protected them? Will they be appropriately punished? You’re seeing the similarities here between this story and current events, aren’t you?
If you crave the sensational or desire a weekend page-turner, look no further than this book. You may still be waiting to see how criminal behavior in the financial markets might be reprimanded. But here you have a close and personal account of miscarried justice and horrific murder.
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