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    Taken from Home: A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
    Taken from Home: A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
    Taken from Home: A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder
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    Taken from Home: A Father, a Dark Secret, and a Brutal Murder

    Written by Eric Francis

    Narrated by Timothy Andrés Pabon

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    Grand Junction, Colorado, 2001: When Michael Blagg’s adoring wife, Jennifer, and his six year-old-daughter, Abby, disappeared from their home, Michael led the charge to find them, even going so far as to make a nationwide appeal on Good Morning America for information. But seven months later, investigators found Jennifer’s remains in a Mesa County landfill, and things took a darker turn....

    Jennifer had been shot in the head, investigators discovered, and Abby was nowhere to be found. While Michael, a respected prayer-group leader, played the part of grieving survivor, authorities became increasingly suspicious There was blood evidence in the back of the family’s van. Was Blagg a cold-blooded killer? A religious fanatic? This is the terrifying true story of what happened when Jennifer and Abby Blagg were....

    Taken from Home

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateDec 12, 2017
    ISBN9781543657630
    Author

    Eric Francis

    Eric Francis is a People Magazine journalist and author whose books include Broken Vows and The Dartmouth Murders. He lives in Vermont.

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      It was too much detail. I felt like a lot could have been left out and still told the story well.

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