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Title: The Blooding by Joseph Wambaugh ISBN: 0-553-28281-6 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1989 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.4 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: True story of first murder solved by DNA tests
Comment: This story is set in three neighbouring villages with which I am familiar. The crimes were committed in the eighties, but I only came to know the villages many years later, when I worked in Narborough (the middle of the three villages) from 1998 to 2002. I heard occasional references to these crimes, although never any in-depth conversations. Even now, the topic is too sensitive, so the only way I could find out what really happened was via this book.
Wambaugh gives an excellent account of the crimes and the often futile attempts to solve them. Perhaps occasionally it is more graphic than it needs to be, describing the state of the bodies in intimate detail, but its easy to gloss over that (it is in print, not on film) and there's not too much of that. Some of the main characters, including the policemen and their suspects, are described in great detail. While some may feel that this is just padding, I feel it all helps to make it a good story.
Again, plenty of pages are devoted to false leads, but this may help us to understand why detective work is never as simple as we would like it to be. At one point, after the second murder, the police think they've got their man. The parents can't believe that he would do such a thing and it is at that point that the new science of DNA testing is brought in. The parents are convinced their son in innocent. The police are convinced that he is not only guilty of that murder, but also the earlier one. Did the same man commit both murders and was this particular man guilty? The DNA test results eventually provide answers, but to find out what those answers were, you must read the book.
Rating: 5
Summary: A fascinating Orwellian dragnet for a killer
Comment: A fifteen year old girl is raped and strangled, her body left along a footpath near an English Village called Narborough. Though a massive effort is launch to find the killer, he remains at large for years. Then the Killer strikes three years after the first murder, killing another young girl in the same brutal fashion, and leaving her body only a short distance from the first. The police do not give up, but this man continually evades detection until several years later Scotland Yard comes a calling with a new tool: DNA. The first time its was used to solve a police case, and to actually track a killer not just to reinforce a case. In a very controversial move, nearly 4000 men in and around the town of Narborough are tested, everyone from teen to old man are 'blooded' meaning their DNA of their blood is tested against the samples of the killer. Never has any police force taken such a massive Orwellian move, compelling every male able to commit the crime to come forward for testing. Even so, the killer continually evades being blooded, but it was a matter of time and dogged police work.
Warbaugh's best work since The Onion Field, may be uncomfortable for some people because of the details of the murders etc, others - believers of the right of individual - will be upset with the Orwellian dragnet, but its a fascinating detailed account that often compels as repels in the same breath.
Rating: 5
Summary: The first 5-star book I've ever read
Comment: I read some of the other reviews of this book and found the last 2 to be completely incorrect. This is in fact, not a book for the weak at heart, but it never promises to be. This is very graphic and detailed. So, if you don't like this, don't read this book, but for other true crime fanatics like myself, you will most assuredly love this read. It starts in high gear and stays there throughout. There are no long intros or set-ups, this book hits the ground running and will never leave you thinking that your time could be better spent as some of the other reviews suggest. Sure, if you can't handle the bloodiness and truth of true crime, then go curl up in a corner and read a Harry Potter book!
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Title: Echoes in the Darkness by Joseph Wambaugh ISBN: 0553269321 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 September, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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Title: The Onion Field by JOSEPH WAMBAUGH ISBN: 0440173507 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 10 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Lines And Shadows by Joseph Wambaugh ISBN: 0553271482 Publisher: Bantam Pub. Date: 01 November, 1984 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Fire Lover by Joseph Wambaugh ISBN: 0060095288 Publisher: Avon Pub. Date: 27 May, 2003 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Choirboys by Joseph Wambaugh ISBN: 0440111889 Publisher: Dell Pub. Date: 01 March, 1987 List Price(USD): $7.50 |
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