I was given a copy of this book for free to review. The story was good, but to me it got a little slow when describing the town where the atrocities took place. Admittedly that’s probably because I grew up in a place very similar. So that part wasn’t as interesting to ME. I found..
Review from The Man with the Candy →
The Man with the Candy : Jack Olsen This audiobook tells the story of Dean Corrl/Elmer Wayne Henley and the disappearance and murders of a large number of young boys in Texas, in the 1970’s. I don’t remember hearing anything about these crimes when they happened. It was a sickening crime spree to say the..
Review from American Survivor →
I was about to give up on this genre of audio books as I have listened to about everything over the last few years. (I have a long drive to work). I hit pay dirt on this gem! I can’t wait for the other three books in this series to be available in Audible. I’m..
Review from Freeway Rick Ross →
reading this book brought back memories hearing streets I grew up in and places that I have frequently visited My youth. finally a story I. can relate too. Success
I found this story heartbreaking yet fascinating. There are very few full books devoted to the crimes of Dean Corll. Although he killed almost as many as John Wayne Gacy, perhaps even more, you didn’t hear that much about him. During that era…the 70s, the police were NOT interested in following up reports of missing..
Review from Blackout →
This is another excellent Boyd Craven book! He is fast becoming one of my favorite authors. His characters are well developed. His plot lines are complex yet not overly jumbled. Every book has that “Don’t want to put it down” quality. Wesley Flagg, the protagonist is a moonshiner and a really likeable person. Before we..
In summary this book vividly took the sexy off of servival, it is a grulling day by day s t ruggle back to some semblance of civilization!
I feel like about half the book is description of courtroom testimony and proceedings, which became monotonous and boring very quickly for me. I enjoy thick descriptions within true crime books but the author goes over the same points again and again, getting lost in minutiae. It’s also very clear that one of the authors..
the only thing I see that he forgot was for president Trumbull to meet Levi Jenkins like he kept saying
Good book and narrator is great. Bought as the boxed set and only got the first book