June 06, 2007

Dialogue- If I am Missing or Dead

A few months before she was murdered, Amy Latus taped a note to the inside of her desk at Kimberly-Clark's Knoxville office. In part, the note instructed investigators to question her boyfriend Ronald Ball in the event of her disappearance or death. Ten weeks later, she disappeared. And shortly afterward, Knox County investigators found her lifeless body wrapped in a tarp and buried at a construction site. In 2004, Ronald Ball pleaded guilty to her murder. Amy's sister Janine has recently published a memoir entitled "If I am missing or dead". It's a compelling, haunting book that examines the relationship between Janine and her little sister, as well as the cultural and familial cycles of abuse that may have ultimately played a role in Amy's death. On this segment of Dialogue, host Matt Shafer Powell speaks with Janine Latus, as well as Amy's mother Marilyn Willenbrink....
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