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Unbelievable (Movie Tie-In): The Story of Two Detectives' Relentless Search for the Truth
by Ken Armstrong, T. Christian Miller
This is one of those books that just feels like it shouldn't be real. People are awful. Cops are awful. Even the "good" cops in this book are awful. This broke my heart from start to finish. I can't imagine being an 18 year old kid who gets attacked in such a traumatic way, and then is retraumatized for literal years as the cops call her a liar and arrest her, her foster parents ban her from their home, her friends ostracize her. I don't understand how you could ever move on from something like that.
Which isn't at all a review of this book, but man I had the hardest time with this one. It hurt and it scared me and I wish I could say I was surprised this could happen, but I wasn't.
It's so unbelievably detailed. That's really where the greatest strength of this book is. I can't fathom how the writers managed to get all this information. It's really just an absurd amount of information for a true crime book. I walked away feeling like I got a picture of the entire case. So much information on the rapist himself, even with sections from his perspective. So much detail on Marie's thoughts and feelings. So much on all the cops involved. This book is an amazing piece of investigative journalism.
I will admit I wasn't expecting so much of the book to focus on the police who tracked down the rapist. I was a lot more interested in the victims than the cops, but they're kind of the center piece of this book. And they don't entirely rebuke the cops who bullied Marie into recanting which left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
This book is really hard and graphic, so be warned going in. The man is a serial rapist and it recounts a fair number of his rapes, as well as his plans and a good portion of the trauma the victims went through after the fact. It's detailed. Painfully so. It was really hard to read, but well worth it if you think you can. Definitely not one I'd recommend to everyone, though, because I'm usually pretty good with stuff like this and my anxiety skyrocketed.
Great book, though. Like I can't recommend this enough. Amazing journalism and such an important story.
Which isn't at all a review of this book, but man I had the hardest time with this one. It hurt and it scared me and I wish I could say I was surprised this could happen, but I wasn't.
It's so unbelievably detailed. That's really where the greatest strength of this book is. I can't fathom how the writers managed to get all this information. It's really just an absurd amount of information for a true crime book. I walked away feeling like I got a picture of the entire case. So much information on the rapist himself, even with sections from his perspective. So much detail on Marie's thoughts and feelings. So much on all the cops involved. This book is an amazing piece of investigative journalism.
I will admit I wasn't expecting so much of the book to focus on the police who tracked down the rapist. I was a lot more interested in the victims than the cops, but they're kind of the center piece of this book. And they don't entirely rebuke the cops who bullied Marie into recanting which left a bit of a sour taste in my mouth.
This book is really hard and graphic, so be warned going in. The man is a serial rapist and it recounts a fair number of his rapes, as well as his plans and a good portion of the trauma the victims went through after the fact. It's detailed. Painfully so. It was really hard to read, but well worth it if you think you can. Definitely not one I'd recommend to everyone, though, because I'm usually pretty good with stuff like this and my anxiety skyrocketed.
Great book, though. Like I can't recommend this enough. Amazing journalism and such an important story.