Love You Madly

As seen on NBC’s Dateline—the shocking account of a teenage girl with murder on her mind from the New York Times–bestselling author of The Black Widower.

She posted it online: “Just to let everyone know, my mother was murdered.” But those simple words written by sixteen-year-old Rachelle Waterman couldn’t begin to describe the horror of the crime: Her mother’s body locked in a van. Doused in gasoline. Burned beyond recognition . . .

Alaska troopers arrested two young men—both of whom had dated Rachelle and claimed to still love her. Investigators grilled Rachelle until she made shocking and apparently incriminating revelations . . .

Was this obviously intelligent young woman really an abused child coerced by police—or a deceptive murderess? The answer may lie in Rachell’s Internet journal, a disturbing glimpse into a troubled girl’s mind. Did she convince her lovers to kill for her? That is the question at the heart of this shocking true story of madness, manipulation, and matricide.