Author Brings to Life 40 Year Old Unsolved CT Murder

Dec. 2, 2009 - PRLog -- The Wind Cries Mary: Murders That Shook A Power Town, a newly published books tells the story of the abduction and murder in 1969 of ten-year-old Mary Mount, the daughter of an IBM research scientist which occurred in New Canaan Connecticut, a posh New York City bedroom town for the nation’s corporate elite.  A year and a half after Mary's abduction and murder, John Rice, a 17-year-old honor student and Boy Scout in New Canaan, brutally murdered four members of his family.  Rice became another suspect in Mary Mount's murder. Rice found not guilty of the murders of his family by reason of insanity was released back into society after spending only five years at Connecticut's Whiting Institute for the criminally insane. The Wind Cries Mary reveals more shocking twists to the story and enlists author and Criminal Profiler Greg Cooper who has appeared on Greta Van Susteren and documentaries on Court TV and Discovery, for his expert analysis concerning Mary Mount's killer and the possibility of John Rice as her murderer. Several persons including serial killers became suspects.

Erika Grey is a skilled researcher, non fiction writer, author of children's works, and artist.  In The Wind Cries Mary: Murders That Shook A Power Town, Erika tells a story that occurred one and a half blocks from her home.   Her father was an auxiliary police officer at the time, and her siblings and friends went to school with Mary Mount and the Rice family members who were murdered.   With a story so close to home Erika Grey could not resist adding this work to her repertoire which can be viewed at www.erikagrey.com.

The newly established Pedante Press which features non-fiction titles is the publisher and this work is one of their first titles.  The recently published book which has not yet reached the shelves is for immediate sale at www.amazon.com.

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