Energy conservation in buildings, 1973-83: A bibliography of European and American literature on government, commercial, industrial, and domestic building energy management and technology

Farmer, Penny

Scholium International [distributor]

The social & economic impact of unemployment, 1979-85: A select bibliography

Business & Money

Economics

Technical Communications

“This account by Farmer is both intimate but also the dispassionate, clear version you’d expect from a journalist.”―OprahMag.com, “20 Best True Crime Books" In this shocking true-crime drama, a forty-year-old double murder brings together a grieving family and two brothers―just kids when they witnessed their father commit the brutal act―to track down a psychopath once suspected as being the Golden State Killer. “A real-life page turner more intriguing than anything on Netflix.” –Matt Nixson, Books Editor, Mail on Sunday (London) In 1978, two tortured corpses―hooded, bound, and weighted down with engine parts―were found in the sea off Guatemala. Junior doctor Chris Farmer and his girlfriend, Peta Frampton, were still clinging to life when they were thrown from the yacht they’d been crewing. Here is the gripping account of how Chris's family worked alongside police, the FBI, and Interpol to gather evidence against the boat’s Californian skipper, Silas Duane Boston. Almost four decades later, in 2015, Chris’s sister, Penny, used Facebook to track down Boston. Following the detailed, haunting testimony of his own two sons―who also implicated their father in a string of other killings―Boston was finally arrested and charged with two counts of maritime murder. A story of homicide on the high seas, Dead in the Water is also a tale of a family’s fortitude and diligence in tracking down a monster.

Dead in the Water: My Forty-Year Search for My Brother's Killer

History

Americas

Diversion Books

This is the true and horrifying account of the brutal torture and murder of the author’s brother and his long-time girlfriend forty years ago. In July 1978, two bodies were found in the sea off the coast of Guatemala, and proved to be the remains of Dr Chris Farmer and his lawyer girlfriend, Peta Frampton, young graduates, aged twenty-five and twenty-four, from Greater Manchester. After suffering a three-day ordeal in which they were tortured, they were then thrown overboard while still alive from the yacht on which they had been crewing, their bodies weighted down with heavy iron engine parts and their heads covered in plastic bags. For nearly forty years, no one was charged with these savage murders, even though the name of the yacht, the Justin B., and its owner, an American named Silas Duane Boston, were known. But this is also the story of how Chris’s sister, journalist Penny Farmer, and her family, tracked down the killer and assembled the evidence against him, leading to the arrest of Boston in California in December 2016. At the age of 76, he was charged with two counts of maritime murder. He pleaded not guilty, but amongst the evidence that Chris Farmer’s family, the police forces in both the UK and the USA, as well as the FBI and Interpol, had so patiently collected, was the shocking eyewitness testimony of both of Boston’s two sons who, aged thirteen and twelve, had been present when the murders took place. Regrettably, Boston will now never face justice, for he effectively took his own life in prison in April 2017. But for the families of Chris and Peta, they have at least the satisfaction of knowing that, through their own efforts over many years, this Californian serial killer did not escape being made to face his crimes.

Dead In The Water

John Blake Publishing

Wind Energy 1975–1985: A Bibliography

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

Springer

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