Dancing with Death: The Love Triangle Murder of Catherine Woods
LOVE MURDER26 Nov 2025

Dancing with Death: The Love Triangle Murder of Catherine Woods

When a talented and beautiful young woman is murdered in her Upper East Side apartment the week after Thanksgiving 2005, the police take a close look at her complicated love life.

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1. LaRosa, Paul, and Erin Moriarty. Death of a Dream. Simon and Schuster, 2008.

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