The dead girl
By: Melanie Thernstrom.
Publisher: Pocket Books
Published: 1990
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 430
Subjects: Lee, Roberta, d. 1984; Murder -- California -- Case studies; Murder victims -- United States -- Biography
Description: Roberta Lee, a lovely Berkeley student of unusual promise, went running one November Sunday in 1984 with her lover, Bradley Page. He came back alone. Roberta, sometimes volatile and moody, had run off on her own, he said. When she failed to return, one of the largest missing-person searches in California history was launched. Five weeks later, her battered body was found on a bed of branches in a shallow grave. Within hours, Page had confessed to the murder of Roberta Lee -- and then recanted. The story of the dead girl had begun.