The Evil Mother

Model Mother The bed was soaked in blood. Eighteen-year-old Aaron Iturra had been sound asleep when someone crept into his room and shot him execution-style. His family was stunned; the police were baffled; and soon the quiet community of Eugene, Oregon, would be rocked by the truth behind this shocking crime...Notorious Ringleader Mary Louise Thompson, dubbed "Gang Mom" by a local news- paper for her courageous campaign against gangs, seemed to devote her life to being a surrogate mother, offering troubled teens the care and support they desperately needed. But no one knew that the plump housewife had masterminded a violent local gang-and ordered the hit on Aaron Iturra. Malicious Murderess Now, in an account of riveting psychological intensity, reporter Fred Rosen reveals the uncensored facts of the story he helped to break...about kids looking for kicks and the woman who used them in her own twisted scheme of greed, revenge, and cold-blooded murder...