title: Family Blood: The True Story of Yom Kippur Murders : One Family's Greed, Love, and Rage
author:  Marvin J. Wolf 
description: Family Blood takes us through the morass of one clan's creed, jealousies, manipulations, and tantrums. Long before murder entered the picture, tax evasion, theft, insurance fraud, and racketeering were accepted family practices. Dapper, dishonest granddaddy perfects a scheme to fool auditors. His son-in-law, Gerald Woodman, is a scam artist. Gerald's two sons, Neil and Stewart, gamble in Vegas and rub elbows with the mob. If you need the insurance money, is killing Mom and Dad such a stretch? The question is really this: Does a book about despicable people make good reading? Well, yeah, it does. The authors do a fine job of showing motivation and psychology. We also see good detective work as the police peel away onion layers of information to expose sordid facts. The title is perhaps a misnomer because it implies a strong religious connection, and religion doesn't play into these people's lives. Recommended for medium to large collections.<br /><i>- Lois Walker, Winthrop Coll. Lib., Rock Hill, S.C.</i><br />Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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  ## FAMILY BLOOD
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  The True Story of The Yom Kippur Murders:
  
  
  
  
  
  One Family’s Greed, Love and Rage
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  MARVIN J. WOLF and LARRY ATTEBERY
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “I just want to say one word to you. Just one word: Plastics.”
  
  
  
  
  
  “Exactly how do you mean that?”
  
  
  
  
  
  “There’s a great future in plastics.”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  —Mr. McGuire (Walter Brooke) to Ben Braddock (Dustin Hoffman), The Graduate,
  Embassy Films, 1967
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “I’d guess a thousand guys came up to me and said, ‘Plastics. Like they
  thought they were the only one who saw the movie. Shit, maybe it was ten
  thousand guys.”
  
  
  
  
  
  —Stewart Woodman, 1992
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
    
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  CHAPTER 1
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  LAST SUPPER
  
  
  
  
  
  SEPTEMBER 25,1985
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  More exclusive even than adjacent Beverly Hills, Bel Air’s rolling,
  landscaped, perpetually green law