07/06/2024
Last week, our Dad, Larry Welborn, published a book he spent 50 years on. It has already hit the Amazon best seller list and, as email subscribers, we wanted to encourage you to buy his book.
We are extremely proud of our Dad and the work he did and the father he is. Take a look at the press release that went out regarding his book along with details on how to buy his book below.
Murder by Su***de
Murder by Su***de; A Reporter Unravels a True Case of R**e, Betrayal and Lies - launched last week about a true crime case in Orange County.
It only took me 50 years to tell the story about what really happened to Linda Cumnings in Santa Ana.
Here's a synopsis:
Linda Cummings’ first day in unit #8 of The Aladdin apartments was anything but magical. She was drugged, r***d and strangled.
Her killer then tightened a rope around her neck and hung her naked body two feet off the floor of her new apartment in a pathetic attempt to make it look like a su***de. And then he told preposterous lies that Linda had no friends, no family and had just been released from a mental stay at a local hospital.
But it worked.
A deputy coroner prematurely, mistakenly and incredibly red-stamped cause of death as SU***DE.
It wasn't long before most folks at The Aladdin forgot the tragic story about the young woman with the pointy glasses who killed herself in apartment 8.
But then another woman was strangled at the Aladdin. Uh oh.
The killer may have confused the cops, fooled the coroner, and beat the system, but he didn’t factor in one thing: a tenacious newspaper reporter who refused to believe Linda Cummings killed herself.
What follows is an extraordinary tale of diligence over the span of a lifetime by journalist Larry Welborn to expose the truth of a murder camouflaged to look like a su***de. He not only shows how and who killed Linda Cummings, he also confirms that she was a spunky young woman, beloved by many, and deserving of some kind of justice a half-century after her death.
This is not your typical detective whodunit mystery.
This is a story demonstrating to what lengths a journalist will go to stand up for an under dog.
His dogged pursuit of the truth – and of Linda’s killer – is the heart of this book. Sometimes it reads like a modern version of Les Misérables, where justice and the good guys were the real victims and where lies, pretense, and deceit too often prevailed.
But Welborn pestered the police, challenged prosecutors and pushed Linda’s injustice up the hill over and over for nearly a half-century …until he found a small measure of justice.
In the end, Welborn never quit believing he could move mountains, never gave up on Linda, and never stopped digging, and that makes this true crime story a triumph for her loved ones – and for those who care about getting the story right.
For Linda’s family, his results meant more than a conviction. It meant she could, at long last, rest in peace.
Here's a link to the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0D7TJ4HW1
