Erika Grace was an only child.
And, is often the case with only children, Erika always got her way and anything she wanted.
Until she met and married Benjamin “BJ” Sifrit, a former Navy SEAL with a penchant for violence.
Combine his desire to kill and her sociopathic nature; and you get one night of thrill killing in Ocean City, Maryland.
A situation which Daddy couldn’t buy Erika’s way out.
Joshua Ford and Martha “Geney” Crutchley were just looking for a fun weekend getaway. Instead an act of kindness would lead to their brutal deaths.
Lured to Ocean City’s Rainbow Condominiums penthouse suite, Ford and Crutchley would be murdered, dismembered, and their body parts tossed in to various dumpsters.
After the motiveless murder, their killers would continue partying and enjoying a Memorial Day weekend vacation.
Yet one deadly sin would be their downfall: greed.
When Erika and BJ decided to burglarize a local Hooter’s, they weren’t counting on getting caught; but a silent alarm alerted Ocean City police to a possible crime occurring at the location.
Police had no way of knowing that the crime to which they were responding would end up seeming minute in comparison to the discovery of an even greater, more horrendous crime.
Even seasoned true crime readers will be appalled at what follows as detailed by veteran true crime writer M. William Phelps in his latest book: Cruel Death.
This 435 page book details a Navy SEAL’s transformation into a cold-blooded killer, a college basketball player’s fall from grace, and a father’s determination to prove his little girl is not the monster everyone else knows her to be.
