Twisted: The secret desires and bizarre double life of Dr. Richard Sharpe (St. Martin's True Crime Library)

He Had A Successful Career A Selfless Wife And Three Loving Children. When high school sweethearts Karen and Richard Sharpe married they shared an interest in medicine a desire for family and a dream for the future. For Karen that dream became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the hands of her physician husband she put an end to their 26-year marriage. Fearing a crushing divorce settlement Richard ended the marriage first by unloading a .22-caliber rifle into Karens chest. The murder revealed more about the millionaire doctor-and his double life-than polite Boston society was prepared for. He Also Had A Secret That Shot His Picture-Perfect World To Hell. Behind the doors of their upscale Massachusetts home Dr. Sharpe was a compulsive cross-dresser with a penchant for his own daughters underwear-a respected family man who had not only been taking hormones to grow breasts but who stole his wifes birth control pills to supplement them. But not even his own family could have imagined that it would take cold-blooded murder to finally reveal the good doctors disturbing secrets and shatter forever the prosaic faade of an all-American family.