'Til Death Do Us by Patrick Gallagher - Book Tour
'TIL DEATH DO US...'
Patrick Gallagher
True Crime
In August 1945, Gladys Lincoln of Sacramento contacted prosperous Dr. W. D.
Broadhurst of Caldwell, Idaho, and rekindled a romance from twenty years
earlier. After many passionate letter exchanges and several
sexually-charged meetings, they were married in Reno, Nevada on May 20,
1946. After a passion-filled three-day weekend together, the doctor
returned to his home in Idaho, and Gladys returned to Sacramento … and to her
husband, Leslie Lincoln! But Gladys was much more than a bigamist.
Gladys needed something even she didn’t understand. She married her first
husband when she was 20, and her second husband only 14 months later. The
second marriage lasted only two years, the third less than 16 months.
Leslie Lincoln was her fifth, and Dr. Broadhurst became her sixth. But what
desperate need drove her to go from marriage to marriage?
Then what dark mindset moved her and her young cowboy chauffeur to commit
murder? Find out in ‘TIL DEATH DO US …’ the gripping new true crime from
WildBlue Press author Patrick Gallagher whose grandfather was Gladys’ lead
defense attorney during her sensational trial.
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What is it about Gladys that just doesn’t feel right? When first
meeting her, she comes across so well. She is attractive and a good
conversationalist. She is outgoing and friendly and has a winning
smile. But it is not so much how she relates to you when with her as
much as a realization that comes to you over a period of time knowing
her. Her judgments are poor and her decision making is downright
disastrous. She sounds friendly when speaking with her, but you come
to understand that she is just playing a role. She really doesn’t
care about you or anyone else besides herself. In time you come to
realize that she seems to have frozen at about age 13 and has not matured
beyond that point. She was like the character in the J.M. Barrie
play, “Peter Pan, or the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up.” It’s as if
Gladys refused to become an adult woman, preferring the undisciplined and
carefree life of a teenager.
One oddity of Gladys’ personality was perhaps a result of her inability or
unwillingness to grow up. She loved the movies. Of course,
many adults love going to the movie theater, but for Gladys it was like
psychotherapy. She seemed so impressed by the movies, perhaps
“impressionable” is more accurate. If she saw a movie she
particularly liked, she would often emulate her favorite character or
situation in the movie. Bette Davis and Ingrid Bergman were her
idols, but she had a whole list of femme fatale actresses that she
admired. Perhaps it had something to do with the war being fought at
such great cost to American lives, but the movies released in the 1940’s
were heavy on drama and suspense.
One movie that had a powerful impact on Gladys was “Leave Her to Heaven,”
starring Gene Tierney as Ellen Berent who meets the novelist Richard
Harlan, played by Cornel Wilde, on a train. The stunningly beautiful
but psychotically jealous Ellen ultimately proposes marriage to
Richard. As her jealousy causes the marriage to disintegrate, Ellen
turns to murder and finally creates the ultimate revenge scenario.
At one point, Ellen is reading over Richard’s shoulder as he writes his
novel, as he types, “’Will you marry me?’ he said.”
Ellen reacts, “Oh, no!”
Richard: “No what?”
Ellen: “Good grief! ‘Will you marry me?’ In the first place,
men never propose. They think they do, but it’s really the
woman.”
Richard: “Who told you that, Ripley?”
Ellen: “And when men do propose, they never say, ‘Will you marry me?’”
After some more discussion, Ellen asks, “How did you propose to me?”
Richard: “Uh. . . . . .”
Ellen: “You didn’t, I proposed to you.” (Then she grabs his face and pulls
it to her and gives him a huge kiss) …. “Remember?”
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Many have set about in life to tell stories that amaze others. Patrick
Gallagher had no such ambition. However, some stories grip us by the collar
and demand they be told to the world, and this is what Patrick has been
challenged to do. He has been a “jack of all trades, master of one,” the
“one” being a U.S. Customs Broker and logistics specialist. But over the
curse of a lifetime Patrick has worked as a farm laborer, forest fire
fighter, process server, retail store manager, preacher, ware-houseman and
dishwasher. However, founding and managing a business in international
logistics was the career he loved.
Now retired, Patrick and his wife enjoy their four children and twelve grandchildren, and their home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado.
Now retired, Patrick and his wife enjoy their four children and twelve grandchildren, and their home at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Denver, Colorado.
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