Death in the Desert

The Ted Binion Homicide Case

by Cathy Scott


Formats

Softcover
£14.05
Softcover
£14.05

Book Details

Language : English
Publication Date : 01/05/2001

Format : Softcover
Dimensions : 5x8
Page Count : 322
ISBN : 9781588205322

About the Book

Multi-millionaire Ted Binion, son and heir to the estate of cowboy gangster and gambler Benny Binion who helped mold Las Vegas, was found dead in his million-dollar home on September 17, 1998. Binion’s girlfriend, a one-time exotic dancer, and her lover, Rick Tabish, a contractor from Missoula, Montana, both were convicted of killing Binion by forcing him to swallow a mixture of black tar heroin and the sedative Xanax. Death in the Desert: The Ted Binion Homicide Case takes you inside this incredible case surrounded by drugs, gambling, mobsters, and a $14 million silver stash. It explores whether it was murder, as the prosecution contended, or an accidental overdose, as the defense claimed. The book includes never-before-seen historical photos of the Binion family.

You can visit her website at www.cathyscott.com


About the Author

Cathy Scott, a graduate of the University of Redlands, is an author and award-winning journalist who has received more than a dozen awards from California and Nevada. She is the author of the best-seller The Killing of Tupac Shakur, The Murder of Biggie Smalls and Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters. Scott is a member of the Society of Professional Journalist’s national Speaker’s Bureau. She also serves as the Nevada chairwoman of the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sunshine Committee, which works to open government records to the public. She is a freelance reporter whose work has appeared in George magazine, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Reuters news service and APBNews.com. She has appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, CourtTV, BET, CNN, MTV, and CBS 2’s Morning Show. Her work has taken her to Somalia, Saudi Arabia, and Panama. A native of San Diego, California, she lives in Las Vegas, Nevada.