The Woodchipper Murder

Herzog is convinced that Connecticut- based airline pilot Richard Crafts bludgeoned his stewardess wife to death in November 1986, cut up her body with a chain saw and fed the remains into a industrial-strength woodchipper. He wrote the book after the case ended in mistrial and as a second trial was pending--Crafts was later convicted. ``In this gripping re-creation of the alleged crime, Herzog may have leapt into the fray prematurely, but he lays out a cogent scenario for a domestic atrocity,'' maintained PW. Photos. (Oct.)