FAMILY SECRETS & LIES

About the Book

• Local Author discovers murder, mystery and achievement in family tree               
• Before Bonnie & Clyde in 1934-35, there was Gramma & Glenn during Prohibition from 1928-31.
•  Gramma, also called “The Blonde Menace”, the “Gungirl” and “Iron Irene, stole autos in Ohio, robbed fuel stations in West Virginia, Indiana and Illinois, stuck up banks in Texas, Missouri, and Arkansas and stole from retail stores and individuals across the west, kidnapping and murdering in states stretching as far as Arizona, it was said.
• In 1929 a Police Officer was killed and his partner badly wounded in a gun battle when Gramma and her gang were confronted for robbing a grocery store in Butler, PA.
• Irene’s four year old son, the Author's Father, was in the car and observed the thefts, murder and getaway.   He proudly announced to his family when his Mother dropped him off for safe keeping, the police and reporters “I Saw My Mom Kill A Cop!”  and "Mama is the brains of the outfit"
• After fleeing with her lover, Glenn, across the USA and being front page news in  a year-long highly sensationalized trial, Gramma was the first woman to be executed in the State of PA.
• In spite of insurmountable odds and difficult challenges, Gramma’s little son grew up to be a hero in the Korean conflict and NASA.
• The Author meets her Dad before he dies and he fills in all the answers to her lifelong questions.
• Take this unbelievable journey with the Author as she starts her paternal genealogy and journals the events in order to handle the trauma of what was being discovered. 
• Discover facts found 80 years later that uncover an entirely different story than the media at the time produced and uncover the surprise ending.

About the Author

A Senior SAP Business Process Managing Consultant, DJ has worked on behalf of 3M Corporate Business Planning (sales & marketing services, strategic and business planning for 52 global divisions), Siemens System Integration IT Project/Program/Portfolio Management and SAP organizational change management- Public Sector. Accenture, IBM -Global Business Services, SAP/ERP Business Process Consultant and GE, Quality & Standardization WW, as well as the “Big Five” Consulting Firms, as a subcontractor in a variety of progressive assignments. She did her undergraduate work at Colorado State University/University of Minnesota & Graduate work at University of St. Thomas and Duke University. She has written several books including “The Corporation - Soft Money Contributions and Political Influence” and “The Market Focused Cloud- SAP HANA, Mobility and the Cloud,” based on the architecture of the joint patent she holds with 3M WW HQ.