Helpful Score: 7
Chilling!! A truly awful account of Rape, Murder, and a break down in the Texas justice system.I highly recommend this book well written a true crime story that needed to be told.
Helpful Score: 7
This story will stay with you for a long time. Two young girls out for a night of fun with friends, meet up with monsters. It's a sad tale of being in the wrong place, at the wrong time. Corey Mitchell is one of my favorite true crime authors. He lets you get to know the victims and not just the killers. This book plays out like a horror movie, where you want to scream out to these girls "Don't go there!", but unfortunately, you can't and it's not a movie.
Helpful Score: 3
This book was interstinga easily read book that will send shivers overf any true crime reader. This happened 30 minutes from my home and all the original details of the case from the newspaper, as well as, nightly broadcast is fresh in my mind.This was a grisly crime that rocked our area with all the villians described very well in the book. The only thing that the book omits due to publication date is the execution of Jose Medillin.However,I never knew that the book existed until I did a search here; presumbly other fellow citizens in the area are not reading it....That is sad.
Helpful Score: 3
Extremly tragic and very graphic but a page turner. This is in my top 10 of true crime.
Helpful Score: 1
Another one for the true crime fans. You won't want to miss this one.
Helpful Score: 1
If you like true crime, this book is hard to put down. It's hard to believe these young men could be so cruel.
First of all, I have never read a more awful true crime book, as in, it tore me up so badly, I had to take a sleeping pill, and an antianxiety pill, before I could sleep..the crime itself, 4 or 5 teenage boys raping 2 pure, virgin, innocent very young teenage daughters of amazing , loving parents. This writer is amazing, in that he described the torture, abuse, and very long drawn out horrendous murders, as if you were right there!
I am just thrilled that the worst of the offenders spent several years in prison, and then, he was executed..I will not spoil the words he uttered seconds before he left this world, and entered into his Eternity.I will just say this, I have never, ever read a better, that is, if you want to suffer right along with Jennifer and Elizabeth in this more horrible beyond WORDS oreal that lasted not minutes, but hours!! Great writer, awfulest true story I ever read.
I am just thrilled that the worst of the offenders spent several years in prison, and then, he was executed..I will not spoil the words he uttered seconds before he left this world, and entered into his Eternity.I will just say this, I have never, ever read a better, that is, if you want to suffer right along with Jennifer and Elizabeth in this more horrible beyond WORDS oreal that lasted not minutes, but hours!! Great writer, awfulest true story I ever read.
The crime was unspeakable. On a summer night in Houston, two bright, beautiful, success-bound teenage girls crossed paths with a group of young men fueled with alcohol and rage. Four days later, when searchers finally found Jennifer Ertman and Elizabeth Pena, their bodies were unrecognizable.
At first the teenage boys grabbed Elizabeth, while Jennifer escaped. But Elizabeth's desperate cries brought Jennifer back to help her best friend. Both girls were subjected to sexual assaults of evry conceivable kind and long, painful, drawn-out deaths.
For days afterward, the killers bragged openly about their crime. By the time prosecutors got the case, convictions for double murder looked like a 'slam dunk.' But the familieis of the victims were in for a horrible surprise. In this terrifying case, justice owuld be torturous journey.
At first the teenage boys grabbed Elizabeth, while Jennifer escaped. But Elizabeth's desperate cries brought Jennifer back to help her best friend. Both girls were subjected to sexual assaults of evry conceivable kind and long, painful, drawn-out deaths.
For days afterward, the killers bragged openly about their crime. By the time prosecutors got the case, convictions for double murder looked like a 'slam dunk.' But the familieis of the victims were in for a horrible surprise. In this terrifying case, justice owuld be torturous journey.
