Hastened to the Grave: The Gypsy Murder Investigation - Jack Olsen

Written by Jack Olsen
Read by Susie Breck
Format: MP3
Bitrate: 64 Kbps
Unabridged

Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
Release date: 05-15-09
Publisher: Brilliance Audio

In June 1994 the Oakland Tribune cracked the story of a string of bizarre deaths in the San Francisco area. The victims were elderly, well-to-do, and in each case, had been befriended by members of an extended Gypsy family - the Tene Bimbos.

Fay Fanon, also known as Rat Dog Dick, a dynamic and unconventional private investigator in the Bay area, was hired to look into the strange accusations of an elderly widow who claimed that a young man named Danny Tene was swindling her out of her hilltop mansion. Within days, the widow was dead and Danny Tene stood to inherit a fortune.

Olsen chronicles Fanon’s hunt for Danny Tene, his mother Mary Steiner, and his beautiful sister Angela - a family of suspected con artists who may have been responsible for the deaths of as many as five helpless elderly men and women, whose property - and possibly whose lives - the Gypsies allegedly stole.