Cruel Games
A Brilliant Professor, A Loving Mother, A Brutal Murder
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3.5 • 15 Ratings
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- $11.99
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- $11.99
Publisher Description
University of Pennsylvania professor Rafael Robb was in a class of his own. An expert on game theory, his colleagues and students marveled over his brilliance. But his wife, Ellen, knew his dark, calculating side…and in December 2006, after years of alleged psychological abuse, she was finally ready to leave him. Her divorce papers were nearly in order and she was about to sign a lease on a new home—and a new life. Until she was found dead in the home she shared with Rafael and their daughter, Olivia.
Rafael claimed that Ellen was the victim of a fatal intrusion. Many of Ellen's friends and family suspected that Rafael committed the crime. Now, a high-stakes showdown was about to begin between local investigators and one of academic world's greatest masterminds. But the police had almost no evidence—and the professor had only one strategy: to win at all costs…
Cruel Games: A Brilliant Professor, A Loving Mother, A Brutal Murder is Rose Ciotta's shocking true crime book about an intelligent man who used his genius to kill ...
Customer Reviews
Interesting case
Interesting case since I live near the Maryland-Pennsylvania line. Interesting look into the political background at that time (2006-2008.) Since then, Democrats rule and crime has sky- rocketed. The killer should have gotten life in jail or better yet death sentence. Unfortunately, there is a big difference between what is morally correct and what is legal.
Full of filler and padding
To tell the tragic story of this sock, dysfunctional family, would have taken about 150 pages, or less. Instead the author padded her story with unimportant tales of other local cases and insignificant background information about every police officer and attorney remotely involved in this sad case. The true victim s were lost in the redundancy. The end result was an unsatisfied reading and experience. There was no justice for Ellen or Olivia. That the dog was taken upstairs and locked in a bedroom shows premeditation. How was this overlooked at a major point? And why wasn’t the dog, “able to make the move” with Olivia? Too many unanswered questions to make this a good book.