Under Cover of the Night: A True Story of Sex, Greed and Murder

It was planned to look like a suicide.
But even in the best-laid plans, evidence is left behind…

Jocelyn Branham Earnest was found dead on the floor of her living room in Forest, Virginia. By her side was a gun and a suicide note—typed, lacking a signature, and with one fingerprint on it. A fingerprint apparently belonging to Jocelyn’s estranged husband…

Wesley Earnest was a respected high school administrator, poised to restart his life in a new community. Parents entrusted their children to his care and believed he was above reproach. But the investigation into the life the couple once shared would reveal adultery, troubled finances, and shattered dreams—enough for one man with murder on his mind to travel hundreds of miles…

Under Cover of the Night
 
INCLUDES PHOTOS

• Bitter Remains: A Custody Battle, A Gruesome Crime, and the Mother Who Paid the Ultimate Price
• Sleep My Darlings: The true story of a mother who killed her children in cold blood
• In Plain Sight: The Kaufman County Prosecutor Murders
• Her Deadly Web: The True Story of a Former Nurse and the Strange and Suspicious Deaths of Her Two Husbands (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
• Better Off Dead: A Sordid True Story of Sex, Sin and Murder
• Beautifully Cruel
• The Pastor's Wife: The True Story of a Minister and the Shocking Death that Divided a Family (St. Martin's True Crime Library)
• Possessed: The Infamous Texas Stiletto Murder
• Evidence of Love: A True Story of Passion and Death in the Suburbs
• WRITTEN IN BLOOD