Ccsnh accounts easylogin4/10/2023 ![]() ![]() This book should have been focused less on descriptions of detectives and other law enforcement or the cold in the winter and more on the people who truly mattered. The mentioning of Profiler Ressler seems only to help validate the importance of the book and/or author. Many additions of unimportant details and even people do nothing to help garner the facts of what happened. I did finish it but found it to contain excessive fluff and verbiage. I usually enjoy true crime accounts and thought this one might be a decent one with a sad subject. ![]() It's serious and sad, but necessary reading, in my opinion. The book was very enlightening and interesting. Pettit does a great job of taking that inevitable titllation and bringing it around to something more concrete and usable in a world that has serial killers and mass shootings and suicide bombers to deal with emotionally. I'll admit that it's titillating reading the account, knowing it really happened, and that it happened miles from here I live. His exclusive death row interviews with the killer, John Joubert, and his painstaking research open up the derails of the story in a way that newscasts and newspapers could not. Writer, Mark Pettit, was a familiar journalist in Omaha at that time. I remember the events: The shock and the fear, and eventually, the outrage and grief. Even more so in me because I'm from Omaha, Nebraska where the crimes took place. Reading a true crime about a serial killer who preyed upon children stirs a lot of emotions. ![]()
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