Echoes from the Mind: The Psychic and the Gainesville Student Murders

by Susan Waller Lehmann

Overview

In August 1990, at the beginning of the fall semester, five college students were brutally slain in their southwest Gainesville, Florida apartments. An unknown killer, or killers, paralyzed the city for months. As the police searched for clues, Helen Baxter performed her own investigation with the help of several unusual sources: Psychics.

Convincing members of the task force to use information gleaned from psychic intuition proved to be difficult but ultimately led Helen, a team of investigators, and two psychics down a frightening path of discovery.

Would the psychics be able to provide the police with enough credible information to stop the killing?

Helen Baxter was certain of one thing: some experiences defy explanation.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780999230022
Publisher:	White Rhino Press
Publication date:	01/12/2017
Pages:	258
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.54(d)

About the Author

Susan Waller Lehmann hails from Miami, FL and attended Florida State University. She discovered writing and journalism while in college. In 1981, she refused a job with the nascent CNN thinking Who on earth would want to watch a 24-hour news channel? Her path in life now determined by the idea that she would be a real journalist instead, she put her interview skills to work as a writer, publisher, private investigator, and death penalty mitigation expert. Perhaps because the temperate climate of the South attracts crazies, her life intersected with two serial killers, and, as a result, her first two books recount her stories of Ted Bundy in the aftermath of the 1978 Chi Omega murders, and Daniel Rolling during the 1990 Gainesville Student murders. Her simultaneous professions inform her non-fiction writing, samples of which have earned her a 1996 Eaton Literary Award and a 2016 Utah Original Writing Competition Honorable Mention in Non-Fiction. As a result, she prefers to delve into her wide-ranging experiences as a journalist, private investigator, and death penalty mitigation expert. There ought to be a good story or two in there somewhere. What's that old saw? Truth is stranger than fiction. In 2012 she started a new private investigation agency - because, when you think about it, there is no better way to distract yourself from the hard work of writing than dealing with cheating spouses, tracking down dead-beat parents, and sitting through interminable night-time surveillance operations. She now lives with her husband and two well-loved felines in the beautiful northern Wasatch Mountains. She occasionally yearns for thunderstorms, trees, and the ocean. Her emotional response does not extend to humidity, cockroaches or fleas.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: The Vigil

Chapter 2: The Onslaught

Chapter 3: Anxiety

Chapter 4: Marshalling Forces

Chapter 5: Fear and Loathing in Gainesville

Chapter 6: Visions

Chapter 7: The Needle in the Haystack

Chapter 8: The Near Miss

Chapter 9: Mixed Messages

Chapter 10: The Autoport

Chapter 11: Caught Between a Rock and a Hard Place

Chapter 12: Backtracking and Breakthroughs

Chapter 13: Road Blocks and Glimpses

Chapter 14: Echoes from the Mind

Chapter 15: The Missing Pieces

Chapter 16: Closing the Command Center

Afterword

A Chronology of Events

Exhibits