A Venom in the Blood by Eric van HoffmannMy rating: 3 of 5 stars
This is an amazingly detailed telling of the horrible "sex slave" torture murderer couple Gerald and Charlene Gallego. They turned on each other after conviction and their crimes apparently had no witnesses or survivors. I am unclear how the author has all the details he does on the crimes - this is Bob Woodward fly-on-the-wall detail - but, the author said he diligently researched the work and coaxed interviews out of many reluctant family and associates. Also, I did some looking, and found no extensive rebuttal to the author's detailed litany of sadistic abuses perpetrated by these true ogres picking up runaways and unattended teens from parking lots, etc.
Unfortunately, the book skims over in an epilogue a murderous scheme that was Gallego relatives Hunt and Thompson's plot to carry out copycat crimes while Gerald was in jail, let alone many nefarious schemes by Gerald's sordid mother that apparently led to her own assassination. That epilogue should be amplified into a book itself. Apparently, that has been done. So, now I need to read it: Justice Waits: The Uc Davis Sweetheart Murders.
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