Who Killed My Daughter?

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Who Killed My Daughter?
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Author Lois Duncan
LanguageEnglish
Genre Nonfiction
Published1992
PublisherDelacorte
Pages304
ISBN 978-0-385-30781-9
364.1/523/0978961

Who Killed My Daughter? is a 1992 non-fiction book by Lois Duncan [1] detailing Duncan's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her eighteen-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, in July 1989.

Summary

On July 16, 1989, Arquette was shot to death while coming home from a friend's house in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Duncan conducted her own investigations, which included talking to her daughter's friends, and visiting a psychic. While the police believed the shooting to be random, Duncan believes the killing was by a Vietnamese gang running an insurance fraud and drug operation in which Arquette's boyfriend was involved.

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