Written Through Rose Colored Glasses
Review by Kim Cantrell
In 1995, Tina Biggar’s body was found in some thick brush behind a vacant house in Southfield, Michigan.
As police began to search for the killer of this seemingly average co-ed, they untangled quite a story of deceit, prostitution, and deadly lust.
While I found The Co-Ed Call Girl Murder to be extremely fascinating and able to keep me so interested that I read it within two days, I have was disappointed with the authors’, Fannie Weinstein and Melinda Wilson, desire to turn fiction into fact.
From the beginning it is very apparent that the writers want to, understandably, grant the wishes of Bill Biggar whose daughter Tina Biggar is the “escort” murdered in this book by her “client” (read “john”) Kenneth Tranchida.
Throughout the book, the Weinstein and Wilson hint strongly at a young woman suffering from manic depression (better now known as being Bipolar); who spent money as fast as she could earn it, had a love/hate relationship with her boyfriend, Todd Nurnberger, and was obviously sexually premiscious at an early age as evidenced by her pregnancy at the age of fifteen.
Yet, the book is filled with insinuations that Tina was simply “a good girl gone astray.”
Her parents and friends, even the authors, enable Tina in death by making excuses for her and glossing over the actual facts.
Irregardless of the foregoing, which I admit is of a more personal nature, The Co-Ed Call Girl Murder is a book well worth adding to your true crime reading list.
Want to read it? Go get it!
Updates from this book:
Incarcerated at the Chippewa Correctional Facility in Kincheloe, Michigan, Kenneth Ray Tranchida is known as inmate number 180854.
