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Title: The Brown's Chicken Massacre by Maurice Possley ISBN: 0-425-19085-4 Publisher: Berkley Pub Group Pub. Date: 05 August, 2003 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.5 (6 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Shocking, scathing, disturbing & powerful !!!
Comment: Having gone to high school in the town where this took place, it was truly surreal reading Maurice Possley's book. His detailed and absorbing account of this tragedy however, would make anyone feel close to the subject.... Palatine, IL is as just as it's described here --- a sleepy, affluent suburb of Chicago where the mass murder of seven people would seem as out of place as Swedish models found living on Mars. What was less surprising to me though was the gross arrogance and total incompetence of the Palatine police department described here at length. Having gotten my share of speeding tickets, I had lots of first-hand experience with some of the officers associated with Palatine's P.D. No hard feelings because I was in the wrong, but I began to see how they were just generating money for the department through "speeding revenue". The sad part is, if they'd spent less time stopping guys like me for doing 10 miles an hour over the limit, they may have solved this case much quicker than the 9 years it actually took them! The really important thing though is obviously that these two killers were eventually called to justice to account for their horrific crimes. Although it was someone "dropping the dime" on the killers rather than good old fashioned police work, the families of the victims now have some closure to this terrible event. What's really disturbing, is that the two perps were only in their late teens, did this purely for the thrill, and managed to evade capture for so long! This is definitely a true crime book that fans of this genre will be raving about for years to come.
Rating: 5
Summary: An emotional read
Comment: This book is great at capturing the grief that was felt in Illinois when 7 people were murdered in cold blood at Brown's Chicken and Pasta. The author is very talented in describing feelings of the families of the victims. It is well written and well documented. I hope that the people who are going to trial over the massacre are punished severely, it certainly took long enough to bring them to justice.
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant writing
Comment: This book completely defies the stereotype about true crime books. Possley does an exceptional job of chronologically putting together the entire investigation right down to every suspect, dead lead, and tip phoned in to the investigation squad. Every detail related to the ten year investigation is mentioned without any two page sleep sessions that talk about nothing but irrelevant topics; like the color of socks the head detective was wearing. Even though we all know how this case turns out in the end, you will still have a hard time putting this book down. That is the sign of a gifted writer.
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Title: Dead and Buried: A Shocking Account of Rape, Torture, and Murder on the California Coast by Corey Mitchell ISBN: 0786015179 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: October, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Murder in Paradise : A Christmas in Hawaii Turns to Tragedy by Chris Loos, Rick Castberg ISBN: 0060093463 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 29 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: No, Daddy, Don'T!: A Father's Murderous Act of Revenge by Irene Pence ISBN: 0786015543 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Evidence of Murder: A Twisted Killer's Trail of Violence by Samuel Roen ISBN: 0786015535 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: September, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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Title: Through the Window: The Terrifying True Story of Cross-Country Killer Tommy Lynn Sells by Diane Fanning ISBN: 0312985258 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 14 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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