Poisoned Love: The True Story of ER Nurse Chaz Higgs, His Ambitious Wife, and a Shocking Murder - Paperback

by Carlton Smith (Author)

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death.

Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack--the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy's case...only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy's system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy's first husband "also"""have been the victim of Chaz's treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and "POISONED LOVE."

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A MEDICAL MYSTERY.

Kathy Augustine was a controversial two-term Nevada State Controller. In 2003, her husband Chuck died of an apparent stroke. Only a month later, she married Chaz Higgs, an ER nurse who, it was later revealed, had attended to her late husband just before his death.

A DEADLY AGENDA.

Three years later, fifty-year-old Kathy died after a heart attack--the result, her family and friends believed, of a stressful political campaign. But when an autopsy of Kathy's body revealed no signs of heart disease, investigators dug deeper into Kathy's case...only to find the presence of a powerful, paralyzing emergency-room drug in Kathy's system. A jury would later charge Nurse Chaz with murder in the first degree. But could Kathy's first husband "also"""have been the victim of Chaz's treachery? And just how much did Kathy know? This is the shocking true story of a family torn apart by lies, medical crime, and

"POISONED LOVE"

* With 8 pages of startling photos *

Author Biography

Carlton Smith wrote the "New York Times" bestselling "The Search for the Green River Killer." An award-winning journalist for "The Los Angeles Times" and "The Seattle Times" during the 1970s and 1980s, he was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in investigative reporting in 1988. His books include "Mind Games, Cold Blooded, The Prom Night Murders, Cold as Ice" and "In the Arms of Evil." There are more than two million copies of his books in print.