Dying to Get Married

I'm a big fan of true crime books and documentaries. So I was intrigued to come across this book. I hadn't heard of the case before, and I'm looking forward to learning about it.

It has been years since I have read this book. But, it was one of the most accurate in details. In fact, the only changes by the author were the names of the family members. I lived in St. Louis at the time and was friends with one of Julia's relatives. I know the details, and Ms Harris was right on!!!

Please know that I completely disagree with the previous review. I found that this well researched, insightful recounting of the Miller-Bulloch murder haunted me long after I read it. Even the mere thought of poor Julia Miller Bulloch and the horrendous fate that befell her can still move me to tears.Having read hundreds of true crime books, rarely have I been more grief stricken for the victim than I was for this poor woman. Harris really brought Julie to life for me, as if I had known her and mourned her along with the family and friends who deeply felt the loss of such a wonderful person who didn't in any way deserve what happened to her. I also found myself wishing I was there to give her poor brother a hug--his own life was so destroyed by the murder of his beloved sister. A classic "good girl," Julie was a devoted daughter to her aging parents, so much so that she sacrificed many of her dating years attending to them in their illnesses. Once both passed away, she found that the world had somewhat passed her by as well. Trying to make up for lost time, naive Julie placed an innocently worded ad for companionship in a personals column--for someone as inexperienced and conservative as Julie, it must have been such a bold and risky thing for her to summon the nerve to do.Unfortunately, had the Devil himself answered, she couldn't have found any worse man than Dennis Bulloch. To say that you will learn to LOATHE this man is an understatement. Although handsome, well dressed, and an exec with a Fortune 500 company, Dennis as a person is a complete monster. He verbally and physically abused his first wife, he was unfaithful to any and every woman he was ever involved with, he lied constantly, he helped himself to any worldly goods he could get his hands on, even thought he hadn't done a thing to earn them, and treated his own parents like dirt, denying their existence and humble roots in favor of pretending to be a well-to-do "great catch" for many a debutante. Dennis ultimately married Julie only for her money, tricking her into giving him access to her accounts and possessions, cruelly abandoning her at critical times, and driving her to the brink of insanity. His greed becomes so intense that he devises the perfect plot. Sneaking back from a business trip, Bulloch suffocates her, sets the scene to appear that the sexual bondage activity Julie apparently engaged in while he was out of town on business went terribly awry, and set her on fire before he makes his getaway. Stealthily slipping back onto the plane and into his hotel, he hopes no one will be the wiser! Not only did he destroy an innocent person in an unspeakably evil way, but he tried to also destroy her reputation after her death, causing her brother and friends even more heartache.It is terribly disheartening that someone this reprehensible is even real, yet tragically he is. Even more tragically, he crossed paths with someone like Julie when what he really deserved was a