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CHAPTER 3: SECRETS AND BONES
Top: Robert Ingram, Bessie Gilmore. Bottom: Gary, Gaylen, and Frank Jr. Portland, Oregon, circa 1950.
CHAPTER 4: A LETTER FROM HOME
Bessie and Mikal Gilmore. Salt Lake City, Utah, circa 1951.
EPILOGUE
Drawing by Gary Gilmore, 1976. Courtesy of Brenda Wagstaff.
Unless otherwise noted, all photographs are courtesy of Mikal Gilmore.
FIRST ANCHOR BOOKS EDITION, SEPTEMBER 1995
Copyright © 1994 by Mikal Gilmore
All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. Published in the United States by Anchor Books, a division of Random House, Inc., New York. Originally published in hardcover in the United States by Doubleday in 1994.
Anchor Books and colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
We gratefully acknowledge permission from the following:
“Valley of Tears” by A. Domino and D. Bartholomew.
Copyright © 1957 (Renewed 1985), c/o EMI UNART
CATALOG INC. Reprinted by Permission of CPP/Belwin,
Inc., Miami, Florida. All Rights Reserved.
Lines from Harry Crews’s “Fathers, Sons, Blood” reprinted by permission of John Hawkins.
Copyright © 1993, Poseidon.
Lines from Reasons for Moving Darker: The Sargentville
Notebook by Mark Strand. Copyright © 1973 by Mark
Strand. Reprinted by permission of Alfred A. Knopf.
The Library of Congress has cataloged the Doubleday hardcover edition as follows:
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Gilmore, Mikal.
Shot in the heart / Mikal Gilmore. — 1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Gilmore family. 2. Murder—United States—Case studies.
3. Violence—United States—Case studies. I. Title.
HV6529.G55 1994
364.1’523’0973—dc20 93-45627
CIP
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Prologue
The Dream
Part One - Mormon Ghosts
Chapter 1 - Brothers
Chapter 2 - Bloodlines
Chapter 3 - The House on Jordan Lane
Chapter 4 - Alta and The Dead Indian
Part Two - The Black Sheep and The Denied son
Chapter 1 - The Black Sheep
Chapter 2 - The Denied Son
Chapter 3 - Fay’s Secret
Chapter 4 - Years of Wandering
Chapter 5 - Settling Down
Part Three - Brothers
Chapter 1 - Strangers
Chapter 2 - The Boy in The Corner
Chapter 3 - Running Wild
Chapter 4 - Life With Father
Part Four - The Way Some People
Chapter 1 - Brothers: Part Two
Chapter 2 - The House on The Hill
Chapter 3 - Death of A Salesman
Chapter 4 - Requiem
Chapter 5 - Assault and Robbery
Chapter 6 - Coming Apart
Chapter 7 - Comming Home
Chapter 8 - Rebellion
Chapter 9 - The Walking Dead
Part Five - Blood Histroy
Chapter 1 - Turing Points
Chapter 2 - Deadly and Famous
Chapter 3 - Last Word
Part Six - The Valley of Tears
Chapter 1 - Family’s End
Chapter 2 - New Families, Old Ghosts
Chapter 3 - Secrets and Bones
Chapter 4 - A Letter From Home
Epilogue
The Trial
Acknowledgments
List of Photographs and Photo Credits
Copyright