Title: Below average true crime book
Product review: I'm really surprised by the high rating of this book. I think it was one of the least memorable of the true crime genre that I've ever read. Why? Because the victim and the killer were both so young and had not lived much of a life yet, that there was not much to say about either of them. I felt like I never got a good sense of them and that is important in this kind of book. The book also was very repetitive. Also, there really was no thrilling detective or legal work done here. The only realy evidence found was DNA evidence. And throwing the info in at the very end about Ken's other crimes was jarring. It may be good to surprise the jurors but don't surprise the readers with facts that should have been brought out earlier. Basically I had to force myself to finish this - it is nowhere in the same league as truly great true crime books like Helter Shelter, Fatal Vision, And the Sea Will Tell and The Stranger Beside Me.
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