The Beauty
She was a gorgeous swimsuit model. He was a charming Greek sailor. They met on a cruise in November of 1997 and soon thereafter began a clandestine love affair. Little more than a year later, thirty-one-year-old Julie Scully left her millionaire ex-husband and three-year-old daughter behind, and moved to Greece to be with twenty-four-year-old George Skiadopoulos.
The Beast
But there was trouble in paradise. Julie, tired of Skiadopoulos’ jealous and controlling nature, and badly missing her young daughter, decided to return to the States. Skiadopoulos wouldn’t have it. When she told him of her plans to leave-and take her $600,000 divorce settlement back with her- Skiadopoulos took Julie to a remote area and strangled her to death. Then, to cover up his deed, her burned her lifeless body and tried to stuff the charred corpse into a suitcase. When it wouldn’t fit, Skiadopoulos delivered the final blow-he chopped off her head and tossed it into the Aegean Sea.
The Brutal Murder
ow, find out the stunning inside story on a murder case that made national headlines, as acclaimed true crime writer John Glatt lays bare a shocking story of greed, betrayal, and…
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Summary
This true crime book is a love story about a beautiful woman - so beautiful that she was the Page 6 Girl of her local newspaper The Trentonian. Whenever she entered a room full of people, all heads would be turned towards her. She was married to a rich man who gave her just about everything she needed, but one day on a cruise, she fell for a younger Greek sailor working aboard the ship. From then on her life changed and she planned to live in Greece and get married there. Unfortunately, things did not work out that way and this is the tragic story about a woman in love who falls for the wrong man.
Violence-As a murder is committed in this book, there is details about the grisly death, but it is only mentioned a couple of times in the book