Title: Internal Combustion
Subtitle: The Story of a Marriage and a Murder in the Motor City
First published: September 22, 2006
Description: On Mother's Day night, 2004, award-winning fourth grade teacher Nancy Seaman left the Tudor home she shared with her husband of thirty two years in the gated community of Farmington Hills, near Detroit, Michigan, and drove in a driving rain storm to Home Depot, to purchase a hatchet.   Three days later, police discovered the mutilated body of Bob Seaman - a successful auto industry engineer, softball coach and passionate collector of vintage Mustangs - in the back of the family's Ford Explorer. As the shackles were placed on her wrists, Nancy Seaman asserted that her husband had been beating her, and she'd killed him in self-defense.   At her trial, two radically different stories emerged. One of the couple's sons, Greg, testified that his father had been abusing his mother for years. The other, Jeff, testified for the prosecution, charging his mother as a cold blooded killer.   Joyce Maynard's chilling work delves beyond the events of the crime i...
Subjects: Murder, Trials, litigation, Trials (Murder), Investigation, Problem families, Dysfunctional families, Nonfiction, True Crime, Murder, michigan, Trials (murder), Criminal investigation, united states, Crime, united states
Places: Michigan, Farmington Hills
People: Nancy Seaman, Robert Seaman (d. 2004)