Girl, Wanted: New Book Details the Escape and Adventures of a Double-Murderer on the Lam

July 6, 2011 - PRLog -- Michigan author and nationally recognized crime reporter Steve Miller offers a detailed chronology of double-murderer Sarah Pender’s 136 days of liberty after she escaped from the Rockville Correctional Facility in Parke County, Indiana in August of 2008, in his new book Girl, Wanted: The Chase for Sarah Pender(Penguin Publishing).  Miller is currently covering the Sowell trial and can comment on the recent Casey Anthony verdict.

Pender, now 32 years of age and a one time pre-physics student at Purdue University, was convicted in 2002 of the brutal double murder of her roommates and sentenced to 110 years in prison.  Using her manipulative skills, Pender, an attractive, outgoing former honors student, escaped from prison and eluded authorities for 136 days through a cleverly designed network of friends, disposable cell phones, and the support of a wealthy sex addict who fell for her after a satisfying threesome sexual encounter.  

The highly detailed book includes some incredible revelations:

A wealthy Indianapolis sex addict set Pender up with employment, an apartment, and a cell phone.
Pender worked for a printing-vendor of the Obama Campaign in Chicago stuffing mailers.
The convicted double-murderer traveled freely from Indianapolis to Cincinnati to Chicago.
Pender worked construction management and accounting.
Bumbling Indiana Correctional Authorities were clueless.

The 296-page book is a gripping, page-by-page account of the murder, the escape, and the 136 days on the lam.

Steve Miller is an investigative reporter with 18 years of experience in daily newspaper and magazine reporting and writing. Miller has covered countless trials and murder cases, including serving time as a court and cops beat reporter
at the Dallas Morning News and writing about numerous national crimes as a national reporter for the Washington Times, People magazine and U.S. News and World Report. He is co-author of A Slaying in the Suburbs: The Tara Grant Murder (Penguin/Berkley, 2009).  Visit www.avalanche50.com for more information about Steve Miller and Girl, Wanted.

PRESS NOTE: For more information, a review copy of the book or an interview with Steve Miller, please contact Tina Heaton at 248/613-3898 or tina@revinity.com.