Blood Will Tell by New York Times bestselling true crime author Carlton Smith details the senseless murder of Kristine Fitzhugh by her husband of twenty-plus years Ken.
What kind of secrets could a couple from the university town of Palo Alto hold that could lead to such chaos? This would be a question that would haunt police and prosecutors from the first moments following Kristine’s death.
While Ken claimed that Kristine apparently tripped over a pair of shoes he had loathed for some time, repeatedly asking her to get rid of them, leading to her death, the paramedics on the scene, police, and finally the medical examiner disagreed; instead saying that Kristine’s injuries were too severe to have been from a fall down the stairs alone.
In trying to determine motive for what became so obviously murder, their investigation would lead to rumors of a long ago affair with a family friend, questions surrounding the paternity of the oldest Fitzhugh son, and the discovery of an all but dwindled-away inheritance that left the family in financial dire straights.
Blood Will Tell is a very interesting and well written true crime account of this California case. Readers will finally themselves quickly engrossed with the story as they read the theories of motive that led to the deathly demise of a twenty year marriage.
