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3.67 AVERAGE
3.67 AVERAGE
informative
slow-paced
Informative and well-researched but redundant. I listened to this as an audiobook and had a few times where it sounded so familiar I thought I had accidentally gone backwards.
It was also a hard listen through a 2024 lens given the emphasis on ethical true crime now compared to when this was published in 2017. For example, these women and their families deserve to have their stories told. Therefore I would have liked to hear more from them or feel their involvement more. It also felt cringey hearing “prostitute” instead of sex worker (not used as a legal charge/term), a trans woman repeatedly referred to as “he,” etc.
Overall with a little editing and revising I think this could be a solid telling of this story. That said, I’ve heard about these cases from better sources.
It was also a hard listen through a 2024 lens given the emphasis on ethical true crime now compared to when this was published in 2017. For example, these women and their families deserve to have their stories told. Therefore I would have liked to hear more from them or feel their involvement more. It also felt cringey hearing “prostitute” instead of sex worker (not used as a legal charge/term), a trans woman repeatedly referred to as “he,” etc.
Overall with a little editing and revising I think this could be a solid telling of this story. That said, I’ve heard about these cases from better sources.
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
fast-paced
The New Bedford Highway Serial Killer ran rampant for several years. The police had plenty of suspects, but no clear evidence pointing to any one person.
The search for justice continues, while the police do everything in their power to identify each body, and bring closure to the families.
This was a good read. I enjoyed it!
The search for justice continues, while the police do everything in their power to identify each body, and bring closure to the families.
This was a good read. I enjoyed it!
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
informative
mysterious
sad
tense
medium-paced
dark
mysterious
sad
slow-paced
Content Warnings
Graphic: Addiction, Murder
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
I thought this was very well researched and presented in a clear way. Frustrating that it presents a lot of leads with no conclusion (yeah, I know the cases remain “unsolved” but thought the author could’ve drawn a conclusion for us, or provided their own conclusion) but the story was still compelling and interesting.
dark
informative
mysterious
sad
fast-paced
dark
informative
medium-paced
I’m conflicted about this book. It’s an interesting cold case and there’s a lot of information here, but this book has som significant issues.
First, it’s clear this was written by a journalist and not somebody with any experience in narrative storytelling. This book reads like a long newspaper article - just the facts, dense, no storytelling. It’s such a dense and dry book and she missed so many opportunities to really tell the stories of the victims, the suspects, and the investigators.
Second, she doesn’t advance any theories about who the killer was or even get the investigators to do so. We hear about the two primary suspects but the author never tells us who most likely committed the crimes, nor give us enough information to form our own theories.
Third, the book is very dense and bogged down with a lot of tangential or unimportant information. It desperately needed a good editor.
If you want to learn about the case, go for it. Just be prepared for a long slog of a read.
First, it’s clear this was written by a journalist and not somebody with any experience in narrative storytelling. This book reads like a long newspaper article - just the facts, dense, no storytelling. It’s such a dense and dry book and she missed so many opportunities to really tell the stories of the victims, the suspects, and the investigators.
Second, she doesn’t advance any theories about who the killer was or even get the investigators to do so. We hear about the two primary suspects but the author never tells us who most likely committed the crimes, nor give us enough information to form our own theories.
Third, the book is very dense and bogged down with a lot of tangential or unimportant information. It desperately needed a good editor.
If you want to learn about the case, go for it. Just be prepared for a long slog of a read.
dark
informative
sad
slow-paced