Everybody's Best Friend
The True Story of a Marriage That Ended in Murder
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Sean Runnette
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Ken Englade
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Inside a beautiful house in Philadelphia's ritzy Main Line section lay the body of a young mother - dead of an apparent drowning in her bathtub. With no sign of a break-in, no history of marital problems, and the naïve belief that these things sometimes just happen, Stefanie Rabinowitz's family prepared to bury the 29-year-old wife and mother. But at the 11th hour, because Stefanie was so young, and because there were no witnesses to her death, an autopsy was ordered. And what it revealed was unthinkable: Stefanie had been murdered - strangled in her home, then dragged into the tub to stage a fake drowning. Even more shocking was the suspected killer - Stefanie's 34-year-old husband, Craig: devoted family man, loyal husband, and "everybody's best friend".
When the astounding truth began to emerge, so did the tawdry double life of Craig Rabinowitz, a man so obsessed with a $2,000-a-week exotic dancer that his habit caused him to look to the insurance money he would get from murdering his wife. Now, with exclusive interviews and startling inside details, best-selling author Ken Englade blows wide open the shocking true account of a storybook marriage that ended in bone-chilling murder.
Contains mature themes.
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Very detailed, well research and well written.
Excellent coverage of this true crime
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Thank you for bringing this fascinating story to us.
With just ordinary people like the ones you have next door as the principle stars, this tale of deceit, selfishness and disregard is almost unbelievable were it not true.
Makes you realise…just who is that person you think is just an everyday person…..like the one Nextdoor????
Who are they really?????
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one of the best i have heard
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I like the narrator. Didn’t over do it (and as an Aussie well done on the kiwi accent!)
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Fascinating story
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Good story, irritating narrator
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