Michael R. Grimm is a retired forensic scientist with 38 years of service with both the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the Virginia Department of Forensic Science. He spent most of his childhood in western Washington State in the same area where the events in this book took place. His devotion to family and lifelong admiration of law enforcement have culminated in the pages of this book. Throughout his professional career he has remained neutral on the subject of capital punishment even after testifying in dozens of death penalty cases throughout the United States. He now resides in rural Virginia with his beloved wife of 49 years, Judy.
Tell Edith Goodbye
A True Crime Story of Depravity and Obsession During the Great Depression
by Michael Grimm
Tell Edith Goodbye
A True Crime Story of Depravity and Obsession During the Great Depression
by Michael Grimm
Published Jun 15, 2019
258 Pages
Genre: TRUE CRIME / Murder / General
Book Details
For more than 50 years, Michael Grimm was both intrigued and bewildered by the mystery of his father’s childhood—a dark period in the family’s unfortunate past. With a background in forensic science and a love of historical research, Michael set out to learn all there was to know. In Tell Edith Goodbye, he reveals the true story for the first time.
It’s the summer of 1935, and a stranger known simply as the Finn has arrived in the Skagit Valley. Like hundreds of other out-of-work men during the Great Depression, he is looking for employment. But what he finds is a family who welcomes him into their home—and into the life of an eleven-year-old girl… Young Edith’s infatuation with a drifter who will stop at nothing to secure a permanent place in her fragile heart results in a tragedy that will rock a far Northwest community and continue to shape one family’s lives into the future.