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The high-profile 1976 disappearance and murder of a Columbia waitress is the focus of a new book called “The Life of a Murder.” The book is written by retired Boone County Judge Gary Oxenhandler, who presided over Johnny Wright’s murder trial. Wright was able to avoid detection for more than three decades before being captured in Georgia and eventually convicted of second degree murder for waitress Rebecca “Becky” Doisy’s death. Wright died of apparent natural causes at the maximum-security Jefferson City Correctional Center in 2015. Judge Oxenhandler retired from the bench in 2016, after he reached the mandatory retirement age of 70. He joined host Fred Parry Saturday morning on 939 the Eagle’s “CEO Roundtable”, telling listeners that Becky Doisy was from the St. Louis area and a Mizzou student who worked at Ernie’s, especially on the weekends. He says she was well-liked and had a large circle of friends. Becky Doisy was a 1971 graduate of Kirkwood high school. Oxenhandler says one of the first things he did