UM grad Buddy Moorehouse saw his mom s despondency over the death of her second cousin, and so he investigated it. The result was a high selling true crime novel that may wind up on Netflix.
Moorehouse remembers being a student at Michigan when Jenny Maxwell was gunned down outside a LA condo back in 1981. He also remembers talk of it being some kind of mob hit.
The police, however, had a different story, saying it was a botched robbery, and letting the case go cold.
Moorehouse investigated the death and the resulting mix of fact and fiction was the novel Death of an Elvis Girl , which climbed into the top 100 of the Amazon book sales charts.