title: Poison Mind: The True Story of the Mensa Murderer-And the Policewoman Who Risked Her Life to Bring Him to Justice
author:  Jeffrey Good 
description: Creepily absorbing, this book briskly recounts an unusual murder case. Peggy Carr, a middle-aged waitress in the Florida town of Alturas, fell into a coma in October 1988 after complaining of "burning" pains; a son and stepson complained of the same pains. Four months later she was dead, though the boys had recovered. By then police had discovered that Coca-Cola in the family home had been laced with the poison thallium and had begun to suspect neighbor George Trepal, a quirky homebody whose doctor wife had clashed with Peggy and whose passive personality fit the FBI profile of a poisoner. To gather information on Trepal, special agent Susan Goreck, collaborating here with St. Petersburg Times staffer Jeffrey Good in a third-person narrative, went undercover, meeting Trepal at a Murder Mystery weekend sponsored by the high-IQ group Mensa and insinuating herself into his life. It was a dicey, frustrating process, as Goreck found herself feeling sorry for her prey and was distrusted by her superiors. Finally a test at Trepal's house turned up thallium, and Trepal was convicted of murder on circumstantial evidence and sent to death row. He never testified, and the source of his troubled psyche?which included a taste for drugs and sexual deviance?remains murky. Photos not seen by PW. Television movie and feature film rights to HBO. <br />Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  **I’m getting tired of dead bodies showing up every time I turn around.One—ew.
  And two—I’m so not qualified for this.**
  
  
  
  
  
  I mean, this was supposed to be a _magical_ drug bust. Easy peasy.
  
  
  
  
  
  But with my plucking luck, I walk right in and stumble over a dead body.
  
  
  
  
  
  This body belongs to a dealer who was worse than most. She took advantage of
  mixed breed shifters who were more powerful than they realized; she stole
  magic and got on the bad side of my favorite dragon.
  
  
  
  
  
  Bennett’s raging and I need to solve this case before he goes off the deep
  end.
  
  
  
  
  
  A rookie against dealers and addicts is not good odds.
  
  
  
  
  
  But it gets worse.
  
  
  
  
  
  Because the killer knows how to hex.
  
  
  
  
  
  Hexing uses magical equations to do the dirty work … and I hate math … well,
  math and murder.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ### Table of Contents
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Title Page](part0002.html#1T140-9f8824e4138645179e0900817dc9261d)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  [Copyright](part0003.html#2RHM0-9f8824e4138645179e0900817dc926