Every Breath You Take : A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule

In perhaps the first true-crime book written at the victim's request, Ann Rule untangles a web of lies and brutality that culminated in the murder of Sheila Blackthorne Bellush -- a woman Rule never met, but whose shocking story she now chronicles with compassion, exacting detail, and unvarnished candor. Although happily ensconced in a loving second marriage, and a new family of quadruplets, Sheila never truly escaped the vicious enslavement of her ex-husband, multi-millionaire Allen Blackthorne, a handsome charmer -- and a violent, controlling sociopath who subjected Sheila to unthinkable abuse in their marriage, and terrorized her for a decade after their divorce. When Sheila was slain in her home, in the presence of her four toddlers, authorities raced to link the crime to Blackthorne, the man who vowed to monitor Sheila's every move in his obsessive quest for power and revenge.

Reader Reviews
Beautifully written, October 25, 2003 Reviewer: Kosovar from New York "In case I get killed by Allen, get Anne Rule to write the story about me" - were Sheila's words she said to so many people. Her premonitions proved right. She got killed, and Anne Rule wrote a book about her. A book that is gripping to the very last page. A book that breaks everyone's heart apart from people like Allen. "Easier said then done" - but Sheila today may have been alive if she was more conscious while she was alive.I've read that so many people unfortunetaly lost sympathy to Sheila for "she was" a child beater and that sort of stuff but the only time I lost sympathy for Sheila was when she decided to go with Allen to Hawaii despite the fact that Allen was a dog who was accepted in her parents home yet misused their warm, parently hospitality by ripping a lot of their money. Then, Sheila was aware of Allen's sick kinky fetish fantasies. She knew that he wore womens clothes and lots of different secrets others didn't, yet she remained his wife hoping for something that was impossible. Allen was sick by all means and he was a master to hide his ill-minded sickness to other people. Anyways, at the end Sheila divorces him finally and meets the man of her dreams Jamie who soon became her devoted husband but she could never get a divorce from Allen's hatred! He was still a great part of Sheila's daily life. He was an idiot who had everything but a healthy mind. In this book a lot of people, especially women whose husbands wear women clothes and are abusive, can learn a lot on how to avoid becoming a victim as Sheila. They're surely not normal and I don't how can it be legal for a husband and a father to wear womens clothes in public and behave like that.The thought of it makes me sick - because it is sick. So,if your husband wears womens clothes and threaten you, report them to the police. If they don't respond like they usually don't - as usual then spend a couple of bucks and buy this book for them -so maybe it'll dawn on them that they are capable of stopping crimes just as they are very capable of catching stupid people like the killers of Sheila. Yes, reading the book you'll understand that four people were involved in the murder. One of them got only $20 and nineteen years in prison. The rest - all sentenced to life in prison. How nice that justice always wins but how sad that victims always lose and that their gaps can never be filled with nothing even if these sick idiots were put in electric chairs for what they've done to HUMANS in general. And for the end I think the morale story of this sad reality is STICK WITH YOUR FAMILY if they're NICE of course, and don't swap them for anything or anyone.