I just finished Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives by Marilee Strong,

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and I highly recommend it.

Hopefully, this book will help bring public attention to this type of crime. All too often, time goes by and the perp is able to destroy evidence, and get away with it.


From Publishers Weekly

In her exhaustively researched account of the Scott Peterson trial and similar cases, journalist Strong (A Bright Red Scream) makes a convincing case that there is a growing number of men—whom she calls eraser killers—who murder their wives or girlfriends with premeditation and dispose of the body in an attempt to make both the crime and the victim disappear. They kill, says Strong, because the woman no longer serves any 'purpose' in the man's emotionally desolate world, or because he sees her as an obstacle to a life he fantasizes for himself….

http://www.amazon.com/Erased-Missing-Women-Murdered-Wives/dp/0787996394/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top