True Crime Books

[*~*Lily*~*]

So I read the book "Devil's Knot" that is about the West Memphis 3. It's a very good book and the author was very fair she presented both sides and allowed the read to make up their own mind. I have been following this case for 6 years ever since I heard about it. I find it to be a huge miscarriage of justice.

A friend of mine when to Highschool in Washington state and a few years ago her and I were watching tv and they said that an American Named Amanda Knox was arrested for murdering her roommate. My friend yelled "Oh my gosh! I know her!! She was crazy!"
So I am reading a book now that that case is over called Angel Face. It was written by an Italian journalist.

So anyone else read any good True Crime books?

[Ubasti]

I love true crime books, but haven't read any in a few years. One that I recommend is The Last Victim by Jason Moss.

[Billiards Girl]

I am also A huge supporter of the West Memphis Three. Ever since I had to watch Paradise Lost 1 and 2 for a college course. And you're right, it is a huge miscarriage of justice. As for true crime, I really liked A Death In Canaan. It's pretty old, late seventies or early eighties I think, bit I enjoyed that and also The Killer Beside Me by Ann Rule. It's a classic.

[PatInTheHat]

I use to read more non fiction crime than I do now.
After some awful events that took place in my own world years ago, I guess I took to it looking for some answers.
Then I read a book by Aphrodite Jones, about a vicious & particularly brutal murder of a typical small town twelve year old girl, by three of her typical small town teenage girl"friends", a couple of which my step-daughter went to school with, when I lived in Madison Indiana where this took place.
Could be it was too close to home for me, but that was enough, at least for books about useless & senseless cold cruel murder.
After that one, I finally got it that there's nothing (at least for me) to be "gotten", and certainly nothing to be understood from them, that is if I want to keep what's left of my sanity.
I can see there being a healthy curiosity about it, but I'm thinkin' maybe not if that kind of insanity has already touched and angered your life in some way.

So gruesome, and often invasive to a grieving victims family & loved ones story telling, especially with a lot of author's false self serving (justifying?) commentary about trying to understand all the why's and whatever's, just ain't my bag anymore...or maybe just can't be.
I guess if it still was, by now I'd probably be pen palin' with some incarcerated homicidal nutbag, and I've got much better uses for a stamp, my time and my overall mental health...I still got a little.

[Srbo]

I`ve seen a LOT of true crime during my lifetime, so I had enough of that.
Read one book about that sicko Dahmer and had no desire to explore that further.
I know about true crime only to well, no need to put myself in greater depression by reading about that too.

[Bryan James]

Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood"

[Doc Wilson]

Helter Skelter. In Cold Blood.

[~Ally~]

A friend of mine when to Highschool in Washington state and a few years ago her and I were watching tv and they said that an American Named Amanda Knox was arrested for murdering her roommate. My friend yelled "Oh my gosh! I know her!! She was crazy!"
So I am reading a book now that that case is over called Angel Face. It was written by an Italian journalist.

Never read the book but I was absolutely ecstatic the day Amanda Knox was convicted of the vile crime she committed against Meredith Kercher. The way she tried to play the media, and acted as if she was some minor celebrity certainly came back on her. Good to see justice being served. The amount of "positive" publicity surrounding Knox disgusted me, while the young girl who was the innocent victim--and her grieving family--became pushed to one side. Recent reports say Knox is distraught at the prospect of spending 26 years in prison. Good. She should be grateful she is still alive and can see her family, unlike Meredith.

I only hope Knox serves her full sentence. It's a shame she will ever be released in my opinion.

[*~*Lily*~*]

Helter Skelter. .

I read that book till I got to this picture of Manson he looked possessed it scared the He** out of me! Just that one picture was enough for me to have to stop reading.

[Charms7]

And what Billiards Girl said. Ann Rule's The Stranger Beside Me is a fantastic read! A whole new slant on one of the most infamous serial killers of our time. And it was made into a movie. Clip