num_pages: 384
description: BORN AGAIN....San Francisco Bay area stockbroker Taylor Helzer was young, handsome, and - to all outward appearances - normal. But that was before a three-day self-awareness seminar left him convinced he was a new Messiah. In the interest of funding his own church and "saving" America from Satan, Helzer began making and selling Ecstasy and convinced girlfriend Keri Furman to pose for "Playboy". She eventually left him, only to be replaced by naive, gullible Dawn Godman.BLOOD BATH...Helzer, his younger brother Justin, and Dawn formed an unholy alliance called the Children of Thunder. They wanted to score big. The brothers abducted Taylor's former clients Ivan and Annette Stineman, inducing them to sign over checks totalling $100,000. The elderly couple was beaten and stabbed to death, then dismembered in a bathtub. BODY COUNTSelina Bishop, 22, daughter of blues great Elvin Bishop, was ensnared in the money scam - before Justin Helzer killed her with a hammer. Bishop's mother was next, shot dead along with her boyfriend by Taylor. But despite the trio's careful disposal of the evidence in the Mokelumne River, the truth came to light when a bag of body parts floated to the surface. The trials that followed would reveal every grisly detail of one of the most bizarre murder sprees in California history - and bring a modern-day Manson to justice...
language: English
title: Unholy Sacrifice
titlecomplete: Unholy Sacrifice
genres: Crime, True Crime, Nonfiction
ratings_count: 72
publisher: Pinnacle Books