Wages Of Sin

\"قتل اسرارآمیز و ناگفتنی. . .خانواده های از هم پاشیده و رویاهای بر باد رفته.\" —Austin Chronicle

در 11 ژانویه 1995، نمایندگان خارج از آستین، تگزاس، جسدی مثله شده را یافتند که در میان آتش سرد قرار گرفته بود - سر از بین رفته، دست‌های بریده شده، پوستی که در آتش سوخته بود. در کمتر از سه روز، آنها منطقه کشتار را در اختیار داشتند: یک آپارتمان کوچک، جایی که کریستوفر هاتون خجالتی در تختش تیراندازی شد.

"Mysterious and unspeakable murder. . .broken families and squandered dreams." —Austin Chronicle

On January 11, 1995, deputies outside Austin, Texas, found a mutilated body laid across a cold campfire—head destroyed, hands cut off, skin singed by fire. In less than three days, they had the kill zone: a small apartment, where shy Christopher Hatton was shot at point blank range in his bed.

Stephanie Lynn Martin, despite her devout Southern Baptist upbringing, was reborn as a sultry stripper and calendar girl. William M. Busenburg was a good-looking wannabe living his own lies. They came together in an explosion of violence and sex. Then they decided there was only one thing missing from their romance: murder.

But within days, they were under arrest and savvy prosecutors learned the ugly truth behind the senseless...