True Crime Stories The marriage license was on the passenger seat. Molly Watson was still wearing her engagement ring. She had been shot once in the back of the head, two days before her wedding, by the man who had a wife at home. James Addie and Molly Watson open this book because their case captures — in compressed and devastating form — the mechanism at the center of every case that follows. Not a monster behind an elaborate disguise. A trusted man, exploiting the ordinary trust of a woman who loved him. The trust did not fail. It worked exactly as it was supposed to work. That is what this book is about. Thirty-one cases. Six decades. Eight countries. A doctor who made house calls and killed two hundred and fifty of his patients. A military colonel who had flown the Prime Minister and kept a thousand photographs of his crimes. A man who sat in the WHO cafeteria every day for eighteen years while his wife thought he was a researcher. A killer who left church early on Sunday mornings to kill, and arrived home in time for dinner. Two complete families, living ten miles apart, whose buildings stood on the same school campus for thirty years with neither woman knowing they shared a benefactor. They Lived Two Lives is not about what made these people extraordinary. It's about what made them trusted — and what trust, in its ordinary and correct operation, does to protect the people who least deserve it.