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Book Review of Pure Murder

Pure Murder
Pure Murder
Author: Corey Mitchell
Genre: Nonfiction
Book Type: Paperback


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.