Up-and-coming photographer Charles Edgar Rathbun was trying to crack the big time, and so was Linda Sobek, a former Los Angeles Raiders cheerleader turned model. An assignment for Autoweek took them to an isolated location far from the hustle of L.A. -- a parched, beautiful and haunted place called El Mirage dry lake. There, in the fading afternoon sun, the model and the photographer, both talented in their trades, would challenge each other to greater creative heights. At first, it was the shoot of a lifetime. But when it was over, Linda would be dead.
In this unsettling account of one of the most shocking and bizarre murders in recent L.A. history, Jack R. Nerad skillfully pieces together the story of an exquisite woman and her collision course with the man who ended her life. A stark examination of the grim reality behind the image-obsessed L.A. "beautiful-people" lifestyle, Fatal Photographs is a dramatic ride into the last hours of Linda Sobek's life and the subsequent investigation. From the search for her body to the search for the truth, this is a journey into the psyche of a man who some called a troubled soul, and others a cunning sexual predator.
In this unsettling account of one of the most shocking and bizarre murders in recent L.A. history, Jack R. Nerad skillfully pieces together the story of an exquisite woman and her collision course with the man who ended her life. A stark examination of the grim reality behind the image-obsessed L.A. "beautiful-people" lifestyle, Fatal Photographs is a dramatic ride into the last hours of Linda Sobek's life and the subsequent investigation. From the search for her body to the search for the truth, this is a journey into the psyche of a man who some called a troubled soul, and others a cunning sexual predator.
