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

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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 fiction, young-adult novels, and has been credited by historians as a pi ...

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

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. 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 Non-fiction books about unsolved murders in the United States Delacorte Press books {{Crime-book-stub