Fatal Jealousy: The True Story of a Doomed Romance, a Singular Obsession, and a Quadruple Murder

Colin McEvoy · Lynn Olanoff

Jan 2014 · Sold by Macmillan

About this ebook

OUT OF CONTROL

June 26, 2010. A Pennsylvania State Trooper, heading home from work, witnesses a car speeding and crashing into trees. Stopping to help, he finds that the driver, Michael Ballard, is alive—and drenched in blood. When asked what happened, the man answers: "I just killed everybody."

OUT OF HIS MIND

Not far from the accident, police make a gruesome discovery in the home of Michael's ex-girlfriend, Denise Mehri. Four bodies are found, stabbed repeatedly with a knife: Denise on the kitchen floor; her grandfather, in his wheelchair; her neighbor, who tried to help; and her father, in a room with a blood-smeared obscenity painted on the wall. How could anyone do something so sinister?

OUT OF TIME...

Michael had already been convicted of murder when he was only eighteen. Despite several misconducts during his time in prison, he was found suitable for parole shortly after his minimum sentence lapsed. But this time, his deadly rampage would not be so easily pardoned. From authors Colin McEvoy and Lynn Olanoff, this is the shocking true story about four innocent people who fell prey to one man's

FATAL JEALOUSY.


Includes 8 pages of dramatic photographs

Ratings and reviews

Even though Michael Ballard was fully responsible for his actions, it didn't help that Denises's so called friend Marilyn fed him stories about Denise and other men. Obviously what Marilyn told him totally enraged him and set him on this murderous rampage. Marilyn was no friend to Denise, she deceived her to a man she barely knew herself.

Parole needs to be looked upon per case. Rehab can be blown out of proportion by inmate. Ballard committed 4 crimes and should be incarcerated for life if not by lethal injection.

Too much padding with dry parole stats from unrelated states. Too much discussion of other unrelated murders

About the author

Colin McEvoy and Lynn Olanoff are reporters for The Express-Times, a daily newspaper based in Easton, Pennsylvania. They covered the Rhonda Smith murder case extensively and it was during a jailhouse interview with them that Mary Jane Fonder first acknowledged responsibility for her crime. They wrote about the Fonder case in the St. Martin's True Crime book, Love Me or Else. Colin and Lynn have been married since 2008. Lynn is a graduate of Drew University in Madison, New Jersey, and Colin graduated from East Stroudsburg University in East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania. They currently reside in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.