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by Rod Kackley (Author)
He thought he'd planned the perfect murder. He didn't count on her mother.
No body. No witnesses. He was a husband with the perfect alibi. Or so he thought.
When 32-year-old Venus Stewart vanished outside her parents' rural Michigan home, police had almost nothing to work with. Her husband, Doug Stewart, appeared to be hundreds of miles away in Virginia when she disappeared. Surveillance footage, phone calls, and witnesses all seemed to prove he couldn't possibly be involved.
But the perfect alibi was carefully staged.
Behind the scenes, Doug had engineered an elaborate deception involving a friend impersonating him while Venus vanished for good. As investigators slowly unraveled the truth, one person refused to stop searching - Venus's mother.
While police built a murder case without a body, she searched fields, woods, and back roads across Michigan, convinced her daughter was still out there waiting to be found.
Even after Doug Stewart was convicted of murder, the story wasn't over.
Because the final discovery would come from the person who never gave up.
Never Forgive, Never Forget is a gripping true crime story of deception, obsession, and a mother's relentless fight for justice.
Some killers think a body hidden is a crime erased. They're wrong.
