Love and death in the Sunshine State : the story of a crime / Cutter Wood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Wood, Cutter, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Musil-Buehler, Sabine, 1959-2008--Death and burial.

Musil-Buehler, Sabine.

Murder--Investigation--Florida--Case studies.

Murder.

Murder victims--Florida--Case studies.

Murder victims.

Murder--Investigation.

Florida.

Genre:

True crime stories.

Nonfiction.

Case studies.

Physical Description:

225 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2018.

Summary:

"When the owner of a Florida motel goes missing, a writer who had been a guest at the motel becomes drawn into the investigation, carrying its facts beyond the actual case and into his own life"-- Provided by publisher.

"'I was convinced that somewhere in this pile of anecdotes and photographs and recollections was the vital clue, the detail that would make everything slide into place, and as I began to assemble all the information I'd gathered into an idea of a woman, I imagined myself at the head of a troupe of deputies and detectives, leading us all inexorably in the direction of Sabine Musil-Buehler.' When a stolen car is recovered on the Gulf Coast of Florida, it sets off a search for a missing woman, local motel owner Sabine Musil-Buehler. Three men are named persons of interest--her husband, her boyfriend, and the man who stole the car. Then the motel is set on tire; her boyfriend flees the county; and detectives begin digging on the beach of Anna Maria Island. Author Cutter Wood was a guest at Musil-Buehler's motel as the search for her gained momentum, and he was drawn steadily deeper into the case. Driven by his own need to understand how a relationship could spin to pieces in such a fatal fashion, he began to talk with many of the people living on Anna Maria, and then with the detectives, and finally with the man presumed to be the murderer. But there was only so much that interviews and transcripts could reveal. In trying to understand how we treat those we love, this book, like Truman Capote's classic In Cold Blood, tells a story that exists outside documentary evidence. Wood carries the investigation of Sabine's murder beyond the facts of the case and into his own life, crafting a tale about the dark conflicts at the heart of every relationship."--Dust jacket.

Contents:

Convalescence in the Greater Tampa Bay area

In search of another

The idea of a woman

The dark side and the other side

Impulses diverted

The worse truth

Before everything that happened happened

All the lives

Furlough

Ballad of the estranged husband

Explicable phenomena

Homecoming

The confidence of friends

A disagreement

What lights a fire

Laurel and Bay.

Other Format:

Online version: Wood, Cutter. Love and death in the Sunshine State.

ISBN:

9781616207304

1616207302

OCLC:

993692996