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Title: Final Justice: The True Story of the Richest Man Ever Tried for Murder by Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith ISBN: 0525934529 Publisher: E P Dutton Pub. Date: September, 1993 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 5
Rating: 5
Summary: Vivid and very well written
Comment: This is a fascinating and disturbing tale that illustrates just how hard it is to convict somebody who has a lot of money and power. Cullen Davis, warped little rich boy dominated by his incredibly wealthy and megalomanic father, grows up to inherit most of the fortune and position. What does he do with it? He chases sex kitten type women, showers them with lavish gifts, and abuses them.
Naifeh and Smith raise the true crime genre to something close to literature here. We have the usual litany of sickies and psychopaths, the usual police incompetence, prosecutors who can't prosecute, etc. The "final justice" in the title is somewhat ironic since multimillionaire Cullen Davis is never found guilty of any of his crimes, the worst of which was the cold-blooded murder of his wife's 12-year-old daughter; the least of which, perhaps the killing of her kitten. The juries in Texas just would not convict him (although they have put a number of poor people on death row). Instead they admired him for his money, stupidly since he just inherited it. And before the book is over, he blows most of it.
We get a terrible sense here that people with riches in positions of power really can get away with murder. People look up to them regardless of their crimes. It helps us to understand how murderers like Sadaam Hussein and what's his name in Yugoslavia continue in power. It's not just that people are afraid of them, they look up to them and find ways to excuse their crimes. This is the human tribal mind at work: better our corrupt and evil leader than theirs, and better a corrupt and evil leader than no leader at all. The women in this one come off as particularly subject to manipulation by power and money, although that was not necessarily the authors' intent. They wanted to show just what a sick, sick man Cullen Davis is, and they succeed in that. But incidentally they revealed the women around him, especially his gold-digging wives, as sad, sad creatures who would be abused and wallow in it for the sake of being close to all that money and power and maybe getting a little of it. One has the sense that they couldn't help themselves.
This is a good read that will rouse your sense of indignation.
Rating: 5
Summary: The OJ Trial 20 years before...
Comment: it actually happened!!!
Don't look at the facts. Facts are **BAD***!! Let's attack the victims and divert attention away from what the case was all about...the murder of a twelve year old girl and a family aquaintance.
OJ's "Dream Team" (what a joke) must've used this case as a template for OJ's defense, because the similarities are eerie.
Highly recommended.
Rating: 5
Summary: Truthful
Comment: This book is really, the most precise account of the murders and trials. Some of the other books on the murder trials of Mr. Davis are very goddy and don't focus on the facts of the case. I really think that Mr. Naifeh did an excellent job with the content and details of this novel.I hope that people will not simply judge a case or story by one book, and know that you must have a numerous amount of facts and reality before you try to judge someone or something.
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Title: Blood Will Tell: The Murder Trials of T. Cullen Davis by Gary Cartwright ISBN: 0151699615 Publisher: Harcourt Pub. Date: May, 1979 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
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Title: Blood and Money by Thomas Thompson ISBN: 0786709472 Publisher: Carroll & Graf Pub. Date: 09 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Last Dance, Last Chance by Ann Rule ISBN: 067102535X Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 30 December, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Every Breath You Take : A True Story of Obsession, Revenge, and Murder by Ann Rule ISBN: 0743439740 Publisher: Pocket Books Pub. Date: 26 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Buried Memories by Irene Pence ISBN: 0786012633 Publisher: Pinnacle Books Pub. Date: March, 2001 List Price(USD): $6.50 |
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