Internal Combustion by Joyce Maynard
Internal Combustion: The True Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City by Joyce Maynard, reviewed by Bill O’Brien, Zauel Library
(Jossey-Bass, 2006, $24.95, 490 pages)
In this true crime story set in a gated community of Farmington Hills, a fourth grade teacher finally has enough of her auto executive husband. Her solution is to buy a hatchet and hack him to death while he's in the garage working on his car.
She spends that night cleaning up blood and repairing the drywall in the garage, and then freshens up and heads to school to teach with her husband's body in the back of her SUV.
When she is caught, Mrs. Seaman claims she was abused by her husband for years and her hatchet wielding was only done in self defense. One of the sons backs up her story of abuse while the other says it is all a figment of her imagination.
Both testify in the trial as does their mother.
A frightening look into a family that seemed to have everything.
(Jossey-Bass, 2006, $24.95, 490 pages)
In this true crime story set in a gated community of Farmington Hills, a fourth grade teacher finally has enough of her auto executive husband. Her solution is to buy a hatchet and hack him to death while he's in the garage working on his car.
She spends that night cleaning up blood and repairing the drywall in the garage, and then freshens up and heads to school to teach with her husband's body in the back of her SUV.
When she is caught, Mrs. Seaman claims she was abused by her husband for years and her hatchet wielding was only done in self defense. One of the sons backs up her story of abuse while the other says it is all a figment of her imagination.
Both testify in the trial as does their mother.
A frightening look into a family that seemed to have everything.
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