The Woodchipper Murder by Arthur Herzog

The Woodchipper Murder by Arthur Herzog

Helle Crafts, an attractive Pan Am flight attendant and mother of three, was full of holiday plans as she rode home with her friends from Kennedy Airport on the afternoon of November 18, 1986. Plans for a big Thanksgiving dinner and a Christmas shopping spree. Plans for starting divorce proceedings against her womanizing and brutal Eastern Airlines pilot husband, Richard Crafts. She was dropped off in front of her house in Newtown, Connecticut around 7:00 p.m. It was the last time her friends would see her. 

Her husband claimed that Helle had suddenly decided to visit her mother in Denmark. But her close friends and Keith Mayo, the private detective she'd hired to gather information on her husband's affairs, didn't believe his story. They began an investigation that would eventually lead to the most expensive criminal trial in Connecticut history and end with the conviction of Richard Crafts for the cold blooded murder of his wife by running her frozen, butchered body parts through an industrial-sized woodchipper.

Updated with new material on the second trial and dramatic conviction not published in the original hardcover edition, meticulously documented in every chilling detail, Arthur Herzog's THE WOODCHIPPER MURDER is a powerful true account of the most bizarre criminal atrocity of the decade.