Poisoned Love - The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, His Ambitious Wife, and a Shocking Murder (Paperback, Revised)


A MEDICAL MYSTERY.

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death.

A DEADLY AGENDA.

Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack--the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy's case...only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy's system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy's first husband "also"" "have been the victim of Chaz's treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and

"POISONED LOVE"

* With 8 pages of startling photos *


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A MEDICAL MYSTERY.

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death.

A DEADLY AGENDA.

Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack--the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy's case...only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy's system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy's first husband "also"" "have been the victim of Chaz's treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and

"POISONED LOVE"

* With 8 pages of startling photos *

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General

Imprint

St. Martin's True Crime

Country of origin

United States

Release date

August 2008

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First published

August 2008

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Dimensions

171 x 105 x 21mm (L x W x T)

Format

Paperback - Mass Market

Pages

296

Edition

Revised

ISBN-13

978-0-312-94801-6

Barcode

9780312948016

Categories

LSN

0-312-94801-8



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