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Early Graves

A True Story of Murder and Passion

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Early Graves

Written by: Thomas H. Cook
Narrated by: Kris Koscheski
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Shocking true crime from the Edgar Award-winning author. "Powerful.... A frightening close-up of sociopathic personalities at their most deadly." (Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter)

Evil has a way of finding itself. How else could you explain the bond between Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley, who consecrated their marriage in blood? Before the killings started, they restricted themselves to simple mischief: prank calls, vandalism, firing guns at strangers' houses. Gradually their ambition grew, until one day at the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia, they spotted Lisa Ann Millican. Three days after Lisa Ann disappeared, the 13-year-old girl was found shot and pumped full of liquid drain cleaner. In between her abduction and her death, she was subjected to innumerable horrors. And she was only the first to die. Drawing on police records and extensive interviews, Thomas H. Cook recounts the story of Judith Ann Neelley, who at 19 became the youngest woman ever sentenced to death row.

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Unsettling Awful Human Beings

Author Thomas H. Cook apparently dug through the annals of Capital Crime to find the most graphic circumstances and court testimony available.
The book is written capably, well-researched, and structured logically, but Cook pretty obviously aims to shock.

Reader Kris Koscheski turns in a serviceable performance but betrays an "I-am-reading-a-book" tone and overenunciaton.

Altogether, this audiobook merits 7 stars out of 10. If you are a fan of the more salacious offerings within the genre, 'Early Graves" is worth the effort: especially for free.

[Incidentally: Speaking as a physician, I was impressed by the attention paid to forensics laboratory detail but disappointed by the execution (the chemical residue after a chemical reaction is called a "precipitate", for example - not a "perspitate"). Spelling or Pronunciation? I'm not sure, but it’s annoying]

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