Sorry ST....
obviously you are not a fan of the True Crime genre. Not that there’s anything wrong with this.
The whole point of the story is just as you surmised, to tell the story of the crime.
I’d offer this, however. Often when the public hears of a crime we hear the sensationalism of it. Freepers are well aware of the bias of the media, you know this.
So while I had heard of this crime from news accounts, as have others in this thread, I, for one, had no idea of how the St. Louis police totally bungled this case.
The fellow who was thrown to his death off of that bridge along with his cousins was the sole object of police scrutiny for almost 72 hours.
Tom was a fireman, a really good guy. He managed to survive that fall and he tried until he almost died to save his cousin. then he desperately tried to get those Missouri cops to go looking for his cousins.
But the cops, who all must be so proud of the fine job they did on this investigation, insisted that Tom did the deed.
Like I ask in the review, if Tom raped and drowned his cousins, why on earth would he go to the cops with this cockamamie story? All he had to do was report them missing or come up with some story about how he left them earlier that night or, in fact, not say a damn word as Tom had sneaked out of the house that night and no one would have suspected a thing.
Anyway, I am a fan of True Crime and for the most part it’s the sort of books I review. True Crime books are usually written by folks who know the behind the scenes details either via investigation or, as in this case, are a relative of the victims or even the perps.
This writer is Tom’s sister and a cousin to the murdered girls. She is, in fact, a writer and there are few writers as good as me but this author is definitely one of them, insert tongue in cheek here.
It’s a wonderfully written book, not overly maudlin and that’s the part that causes the weeping.
My life was touched forever by this book.
Hope this helps and suggest you read it.
So, as “in the title” of this thread, how does this relate to the death penalty. I was thinking that there would be something about that in there, but I saw nothing relating to it... (at least from the review, anyway...)...
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And, by the way, as I said, I can understand a book about a crime and explaining all the details, about something that was only read about in the news. Yes, that’s useful in getting the full story out, because many people only have little bits and pieces and they don’t know the “behind the scenes” details.
But, I was think that somehow there was “something more” to it, than just that...
Maybe that was just me...