Framed: A True Story - Chapter 3
In her fiction, Jill Easter explored the
psychology of revenge. (KTLA)
She was the PTA mom everyone knew. Who would want to harm her?
By Christopher Goffard | Aug. 28, 2016
This true story, from the Los Angeles Times, reads like a mystery novel. Well written and gripping, this six chapter story will be published one chapter at a time. It will be necessary, though, to follow the link at the bottom to the LA Times web site, in order to read the entire chapter. Enjoy the suspense! Editor
By Christopher Goffard
Jill Easter wasn't talking. She bounced a basketball in the driveway with her 3-year-old daughter as Irvine police moved methodically through her house, snapping photos and jotting notes.
Inside, detectives found what seemed the well-appointed home of ordinary suburban parents. A garage cluttered with exercise equipment. Rooms with kids' sports trophies, an airplane mobile, a canopy bed decorated with Disney princesses.
In the master bedroom they found a copy of Easter's self-published novel, "Holding House," written under the pen name Ava Bjork. It had just come out. She smiled glamorously from the back cover, with styled blond hair and arresting blue eyes. Like its author, the female protagonist was a Berkeley-educated lawyer who had found work at a Bay Area firm.
Wired up by police, Jill Easter's paramour met her
in this park and tried to elicit incriminating
statements. (Christopher Goffard / Los Angeles Times)
She was "a patient woman with a formidable intelligence," the novel explained, alluring to men but unlucky in love. To cope with life's stresses, she mixed wine with Xanax. When wronged, the heroine burned for revenge and applied her patient, formidable intelligence to the task of exacting it.
While Jill Easter waited unhappily for police to complete their search, a second team of Irvine cops had converged on a target a few miles away. This was her husband's 14th-floor law office, in a building overlooking Fashion Island in Newport Beach.
It was March 4, 2011. Detectives were looking for evidence that the Easters had planted marijuana and painkillers in a neighbor's car about two weeks earlier, the bizarre endgame of a year-old grudge that began at an Irvine elementary school.
Read the rest at the Los Angeles Times.
By Middletown Insider - September 03, 2016