Charmer: The True Story of Robert Reldan -- Rapist, Murderer & Millionaire -- & the Women Who Fell Victim to His Allure - Tapa blanda

When prison inmate Robert Reldan's aunt died and left him an $8.9 million trust fund, Arthur and Barbara Reeve, parents of murder victim Susan Reeve, acted to deprive Reldan of the funds that could gain him freedom on parole. The Reeves ultimately got an unheard of $10 million judgment against their's daughter's killer, effectively stripping the man known as America's richest inmate. Soon after Susan's murder, the Reeves set up a scholarship fund in her name and the killer's money is currently used in that fund which helps to educate young men and women. The Charmer embraces the hunt to bring a Susan killer to justice and then the chase of a lifetime by one family determined to give their slain daughter a voice, decades after she was silenced.

Three victims testify, and a serial rapist learns: 'Leave no witnesses!'. Serial rapist/murderer Robert Reldan, a Ted Bundy-like charmer, had an engaging smile. A smile that inspired trust. A smile that would, over the next 20 years, cause a dozen unsuspecting women to drop their guard and place themselves under the power of one of New Jersey's most ruthless criminals. Two of those women (Susan Heynes, a nurse, and Susan Reeve, a recent college graduate) achieved unwanted fame as victims in what a prominent newspaper would call "the Susan strangulations". When their nude and battered bodies were discovered, each had been strangled with her own pantyhose. While in prison awaiting trial for the 'Susan' murders, Reldan tried to hire a hit man to kill his wealthy aunt. In an ironic twist of fate, Reldan would become, briefly, the wealthiest 'lifer' in the prison system. The aunt he had tried to have killed, still charmed by her beloved nephew, left him an $8.9 million trust fund when she died.