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Title: Presumed Guilty: An Investigation into the Jonbenet Ramsey Case, the Media, and the Culture of Pornography by Stephen Singular ISBN: 1-893224-00-7 Publisher: New Millenium Pr Pub. Date: July, 1999 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.5 (28 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: More than a cursory glance required
Comment: Any reading into the JonBenet murder investigation must include this book. Singular includes much information and speculation that doesn't make it into the mainstream press, but is, quite frankly, common knowledge regarding possible child-pornography connections to this gruesome and tragic event. While it is true that Singular raises more questions than he answers, the timing of the book (published in 1999) made that necessary. He had no answers, and the questions, at that time, were not being raised.
Now, as more and more children are disappearing off the streets, from in front of their homes and even from their own bedrooms, this book requires a second and third glance. There is far more going on here than meets the eye, and it has been going on for far too long.
JonBenet is a symbol for what is happening across America today, and she will not rest in peace until we know what happened and why, and until we know enough to put an end to it, once and for all.
Rating: 1
Summary: singularly strange and disappointing
Comment: Mr. Singular poses the question, "What if Jon Benet's death was connected to the dark world of child pornography?" He poses this question to the police, district attorneys, friends of the ramseys -- and he believes it is enormously significant that his question is universally met with a long silence, followed by the comment, "that's very interesting." Has this guy ever been in therapy? Doesn't he know that the responses he's getting are either pure politeness or an attempt to discover just how deep his craziness runs?
He offers no evidence to support his scenario and not only raises more questions that he answers, but he questions his own answers -- every other sentence in this book ends with a question mark. This is investigative reporting?
Mr. Singular castigates the media for presuming the guilt of the ramseys without evidence -- but he feels no shame about putting forward his own nightmare scenario and presuming its validity without offering a shred of evidence.
Rating: 1
Summary: A disappointment
Comment: This is a strange little book that sheds almost no light on the JonBonet Ramsey case. Singular seems obsessed with somehow tying the JonBenet's death in with some international child pornography ring, but never gives us anything beyond his obsession. He has a little of the usual fun with the media, even bringing Princess Di's death into it, but adds nothing new. The "culture" of pornography is addressed only in the most oblique and cursorily way. I had the sense that Singular went to Boulder, Colorado thinking he might uncover something for a book, failed and came up with this mishmash, and had a deadline to meet.
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