Murder at Sunset

Cheryl Keaton feared for her life. From the moment she entered into a sordid divorce battle with Brad Cunningham for custody of her three young sons, she was gripped by fear. When her disfigured and bloody body was found in her van on Sunset Highway, one thing immediately aroused suspicion in Oregon State Police Detective Jim Ayers' mind: If a passerby hadn't pushed the van to the side of the road at the risk of his own life, the inevitable collision with oncoming cars would almost certainly have covered up the murder. It took more than six years for Brad Cunningham to be tried for murder. In one of the most bizarre trials of the 1990s, Cunningham, who conducted his own defense, tried to convince the jury of his innocence. In Murder at Sunset, true crime writer Ann Rule tells the disturbing true story of a charming man who was adored by