Speed Demon

by Goldie Guttenberg

Don't ever ride in a car driven by Mary Hill. That's what Carrie Brown, 14, was told by her mother, Olympic gymnastics coach Rita Brown. But, it was Carrie's misfortune to be riding in the back seat of Mary Hill's BMW on August 7, 2000 - the first day of school. With her were the driver's daughter, Amy Hill, 13, and fellow eighth-grader Zachary Rockwell, also 13. In less than one-tenth of a mile, Mary Hill has accelerated from zero to seventy miles per hour, tearing along roads posted at nearly half that speed. Mary Hill, 50, was a woman consumed by a rage that belied her outwardly picture-perfect life. Married to multi-millionaire Dennis Hill, 59, she lived with him and their two daughters in a mansion in the exclusive gated community of Wingfield North near Orlando, Florida. She crashed the BMW that day, killing her daughter Amy and Carrie Brown outright and leaving Zack Rockwell with brain damage. Hill herself escaped with relatively minor injuries - but she couldn't escape the la

Genres: True Crime, Nonfiction

252 pages, Paperback

First published October 1, 2005

Reviews

[Izabela]

If I hadn't been so interested to find out what happened, I would have tossed this book to the side within a few pages. It had poor grammar, no storyline, and had a strange chronology. Most of it was written as awkwardly worded quotes and gave the same details over and over again. As it turns out, it wasn't even worth reading to the end.

[Katrin]

About a lady that sped and killed two kids and the drama behind her marriage problems.