A Lovely Girl The Tragedy of Olga Duncan and the Trial of One of California's Most Notorious Killers

Deborah Holt Larkin, Kate Mulligan

eAudio - 2022

The incredible story of a 1958 murder that ended with the last woman to ever be executed in California—a murder so twisted it seems ripped from a Greek tragedyDeborah Larkin was only ten years old when the quiet calm of her California suburb was shattered. Thirty miles north, on a quiet November night in Santa Barbara, a pregnant nurse named Olga Duncan disappeared from her apartment. The mystery deepens when it is discovered that Olga's mother-in-law—a deeply manipulative and deceptive woman—had been doing everything in her power to separate Olga and her son, Frank, prior to Olga's disappearance. From a forged annulment to multiple attempts to hire people to "get rid" of Olga, to a faked excoriation case, Elizabet...h seemed psychopathically attached to her son. Yet she denied having anything to do with Olga's disappearance with a smile.But when Olga's brutally beaten body is found in a shallow grave, apparently buried... more