In Tina's Shadow: The true story of a murder, a husband's guilt and a family's 14-year vigil for justice

by Sharon R. Dunn

In 1995, Tina Sandoval was a sharp young college graduate who had just landed her dream job as a nurse. She had a new apartment, lots of friends and a loving family – all the makings of a promising future.
One lingering problem plagued her like the cancer she was helping treat at the hospital — her husband, John Sandoval, who called himself “The Shadow,” stalking and following women almost nightly for years. Her divorce couldn’t come fast enough.
A final meeting with him to settle an IRS debt would be the last time anyone would see Tina. Police knew he killed her. But they had nothing — no crime scene, no confession and no body.
They didn’t know how he did it, and he would never confess or talk, but a team of prosecutors and investigators set out fourteen years later to prove the only possible cause of her disappearance was murder.

358 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 27, 2015

Reviews

[Ronnie Cramer · Rating 2 out of 5]

A Colorado DA prosecutes a no-body homicide case fourteen years after the fact. Interesting but overly long. I was engrossed for quite a while, but then it started to drag and I was more than ready to wrap it up.

[Pam]

I now remember why I do not read true crime. It gives me nightmares
I just don't enjoy reading about being in court and the whole process This book interested because it took place in my town and the author is coming to our bookclub.