Originally published in 1986 by Putnam's under the title The poison tree : a true story of family violence and revenge.
Summary:
"One cold November night in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister Deborah was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle--just in case her brother missed ... Was it cold-blooded murder? Or self-defense?"--Amazon.com.
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