The Woodchipper Murder

<p>Even though the Newtown Connecticut police listed Helle Crafts' disappearance as a routine missing person case Keith Mayo a private investigator knew the Danish-born mother of three hadn't skipped town nine days before Thanksgiving.. Rita Buonanno remembers the words exactly: If anything happens to me don't think it was an accident. Helle Crafts was last seen on November 18 1986.</p> <p>In the style of a brilliant detective novel Arthur Herzog skillfully re-creates the hour-by-hour circumstantial details that inform this grisly true-crime narrative. We observe dispassionate Richard Crafts as he buys a truck with a pintle hook for towing heavy equipment promised for delivery before November 18. A day later he reserves a Badger Brush Bandit woodchipper. </p>