Fatal Error

Worldwide Web of Evil Twice-divorced Flint, Michigan housewife and mother Sharee Miller, 27, met ex-cop Jerry Cassaday in an Internet chat room. A face-to-face meeting quickly ripened into sexual intimacy. Miller went home, but kept Cassaday's infatuation for her boiling with a steady stream of sexplicit e-mail-and a homemade X-rated videotape of herself. Click-On for Homicide But Miller's e-mails to Cassaday also said that her husband was a chronic wife-beater whose sexual abuse had caused her to miscarry Cassaday's baby, that he was a career criminal who kept her in constant fear for her life. If only Bruce were dead, Sharee and Jerry could be together! "See if you can come up with a beautiful ending to this nightmare," Sharee Miller messaged. On November 8, 1999, Cassaday traveled 700 miles from Missouri to Michigan and emptied a shotgun into Bruce Miller's throat. Deadly Lover To his despair, Cassaday soon discovered that Sharee was a pathological liar, schemer and sociopath who had manipulated him into killing an innocent man. Cassaday killed himself, but he left behind a pile of evidence, including hundreds of e-mails, pointing to his "lover" as the author of the murder plot. What followed was hardly the ending Sharee Miller had planned: in January, 2001, she was sentenced to life in prison.Morris, Mark is the author of 'Fatal Error' with ISBN 9780786015245 and ISBN 0786015241.