Bones in the Desert: The True Story of a Mother's Murder and a Daughter's Search

Loretta Bowersock and her daughter Terri ran a multimillion-dollar furniture store based in Tempe Arizona where they were well-known and admired by many. Together these two women seemed to be living the American Dreamuntil one man decided to take it all away. Over the course of two decades Taw Benderly worked his way into Lorettas heart home and business. Though the couple appeared to be happy their lives behind closed doors told another story. Terri had always known that the handsome charming and usually unemployed Taw was manipulating her motherbut she did not know the extent of the abuse or how far he would go to defraud her. Then just before Christmas in 2004 Loretta went missing. It would be more than a year before Terri learned the shocking truth: That before killing himself Taw murdered the 69-year-old Loretta and left her.