Deacon Of Death by Fred Rosen
To his neighbors, First Baptist Church of Plant City deacon Sam Smithers was a man of faith, a man of God, a family man. But the prostitutes on Tampa's Hillsborough Avenue knew him as a sex-obsessed John with a dangerous gleam in his eye. Then, on May 29 1996, he picked up two prostitutes and led them into an orgy of horror -- which ended when he smashed an ax into their heads and chopped up their bodies. Now, Deacon of Death takes readers into one man's twisted double life -- and exposes a history of chilling crimes that even the robes of religion could not hide. (less)