In the Still of the Night Audiobook (Free)

FROM TRUE-CRIME Star ANN RULE comes this riveting tale of a young woman whose lifestyle ended too soon-and a determined mother’s eleven-year crusade to clear her daughter’s name.

It was nine days before Xmas 1998, and thirty-two-year-old Ronda Reynolds was getting ready to travel from Seattle to Spokane to go to her mother and sibling and grandmother prior to the holidays. Ronda’s second marriage was dissolving after significantly less than a 12 months, her career as a pioneering feminine Washington Condition about In the Still of the Night Trooper had finished, but she was optimistic about starting over again. ‘I’m actually looking forward to getting on with my life,’ she informed her mother earlier the night before. ‘I simply need a couple of days with you guys.’ Barb Thompson, Ronda’s mom, who had fulfilled her daughter’s second husband only one time before, was simply content that Ronda was coming home.

At 6:20 that morning, Ron Reynolds called 911 and told the dispatcher his wife was lifeless. She had dedicated suicide, he said, although he hadn’t noticed the gunshot and he didn’t know if she experienced a pulse. EMTs arrived, detectives came, the coroner’s deputy appeared, and a postmortem was carried out. Lewis County Coroner Terry Wilson, who neither been to the death scene nor went to the autopsy, declared the manner of Ronda’s loss of life as ‘undetermined.’ Over the next eleven years, Coroner Wilson would switch that types of death from ‘undetermined’ to ‘suicide,’ back to ‘undetermined’-and then back again to ‘suicide’ again.

But Barb Thompson never for one second believed her girl committed suicide. Neither do Detective Jerry Berry or ballistics expert Marty Hayes or attorney Royce Ferguson or a large number of Ronda’s close friends. For eleven grueling years, through the fluctuations from the legal system and its limitless delays, these people while others helped Barb Thompson battle to strike that painful word from her daughter’s death certificate.

On November 9, 2009, a precedent-setting hearing happened to determine whether Coroner Wilson’s workplace have been derelict in its duty in investigating the loss of life of Ronda Reynolds. Veteran true-crime writer Ann Rule was present at that hearing, wishing to unbraid the tangled strands of conflicting claims and mishandled evidence and present all edges of the haunting case also to determine, maybe, what happened to Ronda Reynolds, in the chill still of that tragic December evening.