Witch: The True Story of Las Vegas' Most Notorious Female Killer (Berkley True Crime)

Drawing on extensive interviews with the accused herself, here is the sordid, twisted, and surprising story of Brookey Lee West--a successful technical writer from Silicon Valley who went on a twenty year crime and killing spree. Drawing on extensive interviews with the accused herself, here is the sordid, twisted, and surprising story of Brookey Lee West—a successful technical writer from Silicon Valley who became Las Vegas'most notorious female serial killer.In February, 2001, police uncovered the decomposed remains of Christine Smith bagged like garbage in a Las Vegas storage unit. She'd been dead for years. Next to the makeshift tomb were books on witchcraft and Satanism. It didn't take long for authorities to discover that the owner of the foul Canyon Gate Unit #317 was Christine's own daughter, Brookey Lee West. Further investigation revealed something even more shocking—a one-woman crime spree that spanned two decades, stretched from Nevada to California, and may have counted among its victims Brookey's own husband and brother.... Drawing on extensive interviews with the accused herself, here is the sordid, twisted, and surprising story of Brookey Lee Westa successful technical writer from Silicon Valley who became Las Vegas most notorious female serial killer. In February, 2001, police uncovered the decomposed remains of Christine Smith bagged like garbage in a Las Vegas storage unit.Shed been dead for years. Next to the makeshift tomb were books on witchcraft and Satanism. It didnt take long for authorities to discover that the owner of the foul Canyon Gate Unit #317 was Christines own daughter, Brookey Lee West. Further investigation revealed something even more shockinga one-woman crime spree that spanned two decades, stretched from Nevada to California, and may have counted among its victims Brookeys own husband and brother.... Documents the twenty-year crime and killing spree of Brookey Lee West, a successful technical writer in Silicon Valley, whose beliefs in witchcraft and Satanism drove her to murder