THE WATER IS WIDE

September 7, 2010

Okay, so this is not a True Crime. Even I need a break sometime. Ha!

This book was a feel good book. I need one of those occasionally.

Pat Conroy tell of his year teaching the children of Yamacraw Island, SC.

All his students are black, and it's hard not to fall in love with each of them, as he tells his story.

This is a down to earth book that tells of the problems of every day life. The problems that these children and their families face. The problems that a dedicated teacher faces in 1969 with the education administration.

I know that there are still many administration problems that plague todays education faculty. Not the same ones, but some just as bad and worse.

Pat Conroy closes his story leaving you feeling like you were there.

Great read.

SUFFER THE LITTLE CHILDREN

I finished this book on April 19, 2010.

In this case my evaluation of the situation was that Anita and Sherry both would have been better off to have killed Jessee. they would have been better off in prison, and the children would have been better off in foster homes than living the life they lived with Jessee.

Nothing worse could have happened to them in prison than what they were going through with Jessee. When he told them to kill Judy, killing him would have saved Judy and Melissa as well as getting themselves and the kids out of hell with Jessee.

PLAYING WITH FIRE by John Glatt

September 2, 2010

Shelly Michaels is an intriguing woman. When I read this book, I was left wondering if she really murdered Jimmy or not. Why, because she never admitted it. She still says she didn't do it. I just can't understand how someone can continue to deny guilt, if they did it. But considering that I have been involved in the legal profession for 15 years, I certainly know they do. Still, it always leaves some doubt in my mind.

According to the book, Shelly persued Jimmy, who was a married man, until he left his wife and two children. And she left her husband, with whom she had two children with. They married and combined their families. Shelly is portraid as being unfair and over-bearing to Jimmy's son, Drew. Drew seemed to never care for Shelly so she probably was mean to him.

This case took place in Morgantown, WV. The murder of Jimmy Michael happened on November 28, 2005.

Michelle Michael (Shelly) didn't seem to be liked by a lot of people. Many described her as cold.

It is so sad when someone looses their life at the hands of someone they love and trust. It's so unfair. But then, life is NOT fair.

A POISONED PASSION

Another of Diane's books that I found captivating. It only took me a few days to read this book. That's quick. And I love a quick book.

What I really couldn't believe about this case is the out come of child custody. I just couldn't understand how anyone with half a brain could give a child to a family who hated his father so much, and whose daughter killed the father. This just makes no sense to me no how no way.

I hope that the Severences continue to fight for Shane. And I hope they win this little boy because surely anyone can see that is where he belongs.

BROKEN DOLL by Burl Barer

This was a gruesome and terribly sad story of a brutal death of a seven year old little girl. All through this book I kept thinking about how it must have been for her the last half hour of her life.

In 1988 Richard M. Clark stole four year old Feather Rahier while she played outside her house in Everette, Wa. He lived in the garage of his aunts house. He had taken Feather then bound and gagged her and began to undress her.

He mother heard Feather's frantic cries and saved her from Richard Clark.

On March 31, 1995 Roxanne Doll was kidnapped fro her bed in her home in Everrett, Wa. Her abductor was Richard M. Clark, a friend of the family.

Rozanne was rapped and stabbed in the neck seven times.

Clark was a jailbird, alcohol and drug abuser who couldn't control his pedaphelic and homicidal urges.

Clark was sentenced to death by a jury of his peers, and began the appeal process. He was granted a new sentencing trial by the Supreme Court, but in the end he was allowed to plea for Life in prison without possibility of parole in exchange for admitting to the family his guilt for the murder.