''Who Killed My Daughter?'' is a 1992

non-fiction Nonfiction, or non-fiction, is any document or media content that attempts, in good faith, to provide information (and sometimes opinions) grounded only in facts and real life, rather than in imagination. Nonfiction is often associated with be ...

book by

Lois Duncan Lois Duncan Steinmetz (April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016), known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist. She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historians as a pioneering figure in t ...

detailing Duncan's search for answers in the unsolved murder of her eighteen-year-old daughter, Kaitlyn Arquette, in July 1989.

Summary

On July 16, 1989, Arquette was shot to death while coming home from a friend's house in

Albuquerque, New Mexico Albuquerque ( ; ), ; kee, Arawageeki; tow, Vakêêke; zun, Alo:ke:k'ya; apj, Gołgéeki'yé. abbreviated ABQ, is the most populous city in the U.S. state of New Mexico. Its nicknames, The Duke City and Burque, both reference its founding in ...

. Duncan conducted her own investigations, which included talking to her daughter's friends, and visiting a psychic. While the police believed the shooting to be random, Duncan believes the killing was by a Vietnamese gang running an insurance fraud and drug operation in which Arquette's boyfriend was involved.

References

1992 non-fiction books Asian-American gangs Gangs in New Mexico Non-fiction books about unsolved murders in the United States Delacorte Press books {{Crime-book-stub