Similar
Transactions
is an astonishing true story about the unsolved cold case kidnapping
and murder of Michelle Denise Anderson in Knoxville, Tennessee, and
convicted serial rapist Larry Lee Smith, the last person known to be
with Michelle on the night of her disappearance. Carelessly and
mistakenly labeled a runaway by the Knoxville Police detective who
failed to investigate her disappearance as a possible kidnapping,
Michelle was never seen alive again.
Investigative
writer and clinical social worker, Thelma Paulsen, was living in
Knoxville when Michelle Anderson went missing. Years later Paulsen
picks up the cold trail of the long-forgotten and still unresolved
case in Knoxville when she has a chance encounter with her old
professor, famed forensic anthropologist Dr. Bill Bass, the former
director of the University of Tennessee’s Forensic Anthropology
Center (FAC), dubbed TheBody Farm. In 2009, as a result
of the Paulsen’s tenacious efforts, the cold case of Michelle
Anderson is reopened by the Knoxville Police Department.
Paulsen
discovers other victims — the Similar Transactions — of
Larry Lee Smith, as well. Nine known victims ; three convictions; one
set of skeletal remains. If you ever wondered about that stranger that
your mother warned you about, this is your man.
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