Because You Loved Me

M. William Phelps

Dec 2007 · Pinnacle Books

About this ebook

A teenage girl plots her mother’s murder with a deranged online lover in this true-crime classic by the New York Times bestselling true crime author.
 
Jeanne Dominico was a hard-working single mother. Nicole, her fourteen-year-old daughter, was on the honor roll—and head over heels in love with an older boy she’d met through the Internet. Once the lovers met in person, Jeanne sensed trouble. If only she’d known that the life in danger was her own.
 
With a history of psychological trouble and family misfortune, Billy Sullivan demanded obsessive and controlling power over Nicole. The twisted Romeo and Juliet responded to Jeanne’s motherly concern with brutal fury—her fiancé discovered Jeanne’s beaten, barely recognizable body on the kitchen floor. Nicole’s stunning confession and guilty plea led to Billy’s sensational trial, where a sordid tale of love, loss, betrayal, and murder finally took a cold-blooded killer offline—and behind bars.
 
Includes sixteen pages of shocking photos
 
“Phelps is one of America’s finest true-crime authors.” —Vincent Bugliosi
 
“Phelps is the Harlan Coben of real-life thrillers.” —Allison Brennan

Ratings and reviews

A sad story but well researched and written by one of the better true crime authors around. Enjoyed reading this book even though I simply find it difficult to understand how and why a young girl in a good home takes that drastic step of having her mother murdered. Sometimes things are simply bdyond our normal rangd of understanding.

I couldn't put it down. I was thrusted into the page's. Caught in the moments like I was seeing it all happen on TV. I loved it

Though a sad story, it was beautifully written. I feel so sorry for everyone. They all lost

About the author

New York Times bestselling, award-winning investigative journalist, executive producer and serial killer expert M. William Phelps is the author of more than forty nonfiction books and has made over 300 television appearances. He created, produced and hosted the series Dark Minds and is one of the stars of Deadly Women and Oxygen’s Snapped, Killer Couples, andREELZ’s Sex, Lies, and Murder. Radio America calls him “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer.” His iHeartRadio investigative podcast, Paper Ghosts: The Five, which he wrote, directed, and executive produced, debuted in 2020 and soared to #1 in popularity. Touched by tragedy himself through the unsolved murder of his sister-in-law, Phelps is able to enter the hearts and minds of his subjects like no one else. He lives in Connecticut and can be reached at his website, www.mwilliamphelps.com.