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On January 22, 1994, two-year-old Renee Goode played happily with her sisters and cousin, as the four of them enjoyed an impromptu 'slumber party' at the home of her father, Shane Goode. The next day, Renee was found dead. The local medical examiner could not determine the cause of her death. But her mother, Annette, and grandmother, Sharon, were convinced that Renee had been murdered—especially when they discovered that her father, Shane Goode, had taken out a $50, 000 insurance policy on her life. With the help of a courageous female police investigator and Assistant DA, Sharon launched a case against Shane and had Renee's tiny coffin, lovingly filled with her favorite stuffed animals, exhumed from its final resting place. And her small corpse revealed what her grandmother had suspected all along: cold, calculating Shane Goode had murdered his own daughter to cash in on her death.
First publish date: 1998
Genre: Crime Fiction/Criminal Underworld
Authors: Carlton Stowers
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