Weep For The Living

About this book

A survivors firsthand account of attempted murder in St. Francisville Louisiana. A former warden of Angola Prison shoots his wife five times with a pistol then sits down to watch her die on her plantation home porch. The victim author Anne Butler survives to tell this true crime story detailing the unraveling of her seven-year marriage and how it led to her near-murder. Interspersed with simple black and white snapshots this stranger-than-fiction story of murder survival and forgiveness offers keen insights into the mind of both victim and criminal.