Love's blood
Subtitle: the shocking true story of a teenager who would do anything for the older man she loved--even kill her whole family
By: by Clark Howard.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Crown Publishers
Published: 1993
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 432
Subjects: Columbo, Patricia Ann, 1956-; Murder -- Illinois -- Elk Grove Village -- Case studies.; Parricide -- Illinois -- Elk Grove Village -- Case studies.
Description: When businessman Frank Columbo, his wife Mary and their 13-year-old son, Michael, were savagely murdered on their suburban Chicago home, one thought raced through everyone's mind...who would tell Patty? But Patty already knew.

Led into an adult world of drugs and kinky sex parties by Frank DeLuca, a married man twice her age, the fifteen-year-old had become his sexual slave--desperately, blindly devoted to him. when her parents divorced their daughter's shocking secret life, her enraged father threatened to kill them both. But the lovers struck first, leaving a scene of appalling family carnage.

Growing into womanhood in a maximum security prison, Patricia Ann Columbo has finally revealed to author Clark Howard what really happened that dark and fateful night. From their intimate conversations come a chilling, first-hand view of cold-blooded murder--and a twisted love gone horribly wrong.