Hot blood
Subtitle: the money, the Brach heiress, and the horse murders
By: Ken Englade.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Published: 1996
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 309
Subjects: Brach, Helen Marie Vorhees.; Insurance crimes -- United States -- Case studies.; Race horses -- Wounds and injuries -- United States -- Case studies.; Horsemen and horsewomen -- United States -- Case studies.; Fortune hunters -- United States -- Case studies.; Missing persons -- United States -- Case studies.
Description: The disappearance of fabulously rich Chicago candy heiress Helen Brach and the suspicious deaths of a string of champion racehorses are linked in a celebrated scandal that has reverberated through every level of the glamorous enclaves of thoroughbred horse breeding. When widowed heiress Helen Brach suddenly disappeared on the morning of February 17, 1977, after a visit to the Mayo Clinic, she left behind a lavender Rolls-Royce, Cadillacs in red, pink, and coral, an.

Eighteen-room mansion, and a fortune now estimated at 75 million. She also left behind a mystery that would tantalize investigators for years. When Assistant U.S. Attorney Steven Miller assigned himself the challenge of solving the Brach case, he never imagined an investigation of the horse world would lead to a charming gigolo named Richard Bailey, who made a career of romancing wealthy women out of huge sums of money, a shadowy figure called The Sandman, who made his.

Living by killing priceless horses so that their owners could collect insurance, and the ghastly murder of three children in 1955.