Wrapping up our summer Edgars flashback with a look back at Final Justice
the true crime that's worth your time
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Over the course of the summer, we’ve done a look back at the 1994 Edgar Award nominees for Best Fact Crime. These titles, published in 1993, include a classic chronicling one of true crime’s most infamous divorces and its aftermath, a sweeping Texas murder saga, a psychological study of a serial killer and the communities he targeted, and two child kidnapping cases (one extremely well known, the other less so). Are any of these titles worth a read 31 years on?
Our final 1994 Edgar nominee is Final Justice: The True Story of the Richest Man Ever Tried for Murder by Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith.
The crime
In 1970s Fort Worth, Texas, the name Cullen Davis conjured an immediate association: wealth, admiration, and prestige. As the heir to an oil dynasty and worth over $100 million, he literally had access to anything money could buy.