Money to Burn: The True Story of the Benson Family Murders - Paperback

by Michael Mewshaw (Author)

In Money To Burn, Michael Mewshaw tells the story of tobacco heiress Margaret Benson and two of her children in 1985 who were victims of a car bombing.

A year after the bombings, Margaret's surviving son was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murders. Mewshaw tells the story of what may have been a travesty of justice resulting in the conviction of an innocent man.

Author Biography

Michael Mewshaw is an author of numerous fiction and nonfiction books. He frequently works as a travel writer, investigative reporter, book reviewer, and tennis reporter. He was a professor of creative writing at University of Massachusetts at Amherst and the Director of Creative Writing at the University of Texas at Austin.