About - Miss Muffins Lost: The Polly Guidorzi Story The Book - As told to Thel Spencer, is the lifetime recollections of a St. Louis woman who in mid life found one man who really loved her. They were married and together built their dream house a short distance from beautiful Bull Shoals Lake in the Missouri Ozarks. How could this romantic story have anything but a happy conclusion? How could anything intrude on their idyllic life - swimming and boating, fishing tournaments; deer hunting in season; socializing with the boat set at Pontiac Cove, which included some of Ozark County’s most distinguished citizens? If you saw this tragic story on the Sally Jesse Raphael television show in June 1993, you know that Polly Guidorzi was arrested, tried, and convicted of conspiracy to murder her husband. You saw her on television from a woman’s prison in Missouri. You also saw her adopted son, Mark Williams, in prison, brought to the same show via satellite. You heard him say his mother had furnished the shotgun with which to shoot Jim Guidorzi.

What you didn’t hear was the remarkable story of this woman caught in a web of love - love for her husband and love for the boy she raised from an infant. This is a story that will tug at the heart strings. It will make you wonder about local mores and a judicial system which precluded the woman from a telling her whole story. Most of all, you will ask yourself as Polly does - is there any form of human love that lasts, or does lasting love come only from her “Father which art in heaven?”

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