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A Family's Twenty Year Search for a Killer
University of Minnesota
February 2006
On Sale: February 24, 2006
208 pages
ISBN: 0816644586
EAN: 9780816644582
Paperback (reprint)
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Non-Fiction | True Crime
Marlys Wohlenhaus was an animated, energetic
eighteen-year-old girl. Then, one afternoon, everything
changed. She should have been safe working at the town
restaurant. She should have been safe in her own home. She
should still be alive today. But in May 1979, Marlys became
the victim in every parent’s most horrific nightmare.
At once a gripping story and an in-depth look at the
grief of losing a child, Justice for Marlys relates
the true account of a serial killer, Joseph Ture Jr., who
slipped past the law again and again during a
three-year-long crime spree. It was Ture who brutally
murdered Marlys Wohlenhaus in her own home. John S. Munday,
the husband of Marlys’s mother, reconstructs the murder and
the seventeen-year investigation that led to the capture and
conviction of Ture, allowing the reader to explore the
horror, obsession, dedication, and finally the peace that he
and his wife experienced in the search for and eventual
conviction of her daughter’s killer. Justice for
Marlys generates suspense and sympathy as Munday
recounts how Marlys’s case was solved through the efforts of
the victim’s tenacious family, supportive news media, and
persistent investigators.
Munday gives
readers a terrifying sense of the unimaginable grief and
despair in the hearts of those who lose a child, yet he also
shares his intensely personal exploration of the resilience
and power within the human spirit.
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