<p>Author Larry King says: Washed in the Blood is a page-turning read about the time--early 1960s--and place--Odessa Texas--during its rowdy oil boom days when violence often rode the range. It is at once an examination of local mores and foibles piety and hypocrisy and an inside-look at the famed 'Kiss and Kill' murder of a 17-year old would-be actress Betty Jean Williams whose ghost is said to haunt the Odessa High School campus to this very day.</p>