Bad company

By Steve Wick

Subjects: Drug traffic, Case studies, Meurtre, Drogues, Murder, Cas, Études de, Trafic

Description: New York Newsday reporter Wick examines the events surrounding the 1983 murder of movie producer Roy Radin. Both Radin and the woman accused of masterminding his death, a former Miami drug trafficker named Karen DeLayne Jacobs, were trying to break into the movie business and competed for the financing of Robert Evans's The Cotton Club . The resulting clash between the two, as outlined by Wick, is a disturbing tale of amoral actions encompassing lust, greed, drugs, and murder--a microcosm of the American dream at its worst