Sherry G. (Shervivor) - , reviewed on 1/25/2010 + 97 more book reviews

This was a well written true crime story. The author did a good job of describing how John Battaglia eased his way into becoming a wife abuser. He terrorized and stalked his first wife, herself a lawyer without any legal protection. He then abused his second wife, who eventually kicked him out but he still had unsupervised visits with his two young daughters because he had not directly abused them. He couldn't stand the thought of his wife 'winning' so he shot the two girls while their mom listened on the phone.

The book is an easy read that does not dwell on unecessary courtroom information. The emphasis is on how his abusive nature increased over the years until he committed the ultimate act of evil.

This case directly changed the laws in Texas so that non-custodial parents with a history of assualt/abuse may not have unsupervised visits with their children.

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