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The Linden Murders: ...Solved
The Linden Murders...Solved, reopens an 80 year old cold case in Genesee County New York. In 1917, 1922, 1924 and 1934 six people were butchered. The UNSUB set fire to four of the bodies and laughed as authorities were stumped. The horrific crimes were never solved. Rob Thompson, reopened the case files and using modern profiling techniques has come closer to solving the murders than anyone ever has."...The New York State Troopers have told me murder cases are never closed...but I believe this case is now closed." Dan Herbeck The Buffalo News
269 pages, Paperback
First published April 1, 2013
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May 2, 2021
This is presented SO horribly that I only got 7 pages into it before jacking it in !! I was a little cheesed off that this is badged "Solved" but he then wrote a further book a couple of years later on the same subject, which would lead me to believe it wasn't solved at all !! However, thought I'd give it a go nevertheless....
Even in the preamble he wrote "In knew" instead of "I knew" which gave me raised eyebrows, then on the next page and STILL in the unnumbered pages we get this line, "There were few clues were left at the scene" then we had Phillip's and not Phillips,' there were missed-off commas and when I read this line I gave up altogether, "The residents of Linden and thus Linden itself were very structured it very regimented" which means sod all !!
So if I were you I'd give this a big old swerve !!
Even in the preamble he wrote "In knew" instead of "I knew" which gave me raised eyebrows, then on the next page and STILL in the unnumbered pages we get this line, "There were few clues were left at the scene" then we had Phillip's and not Phillips,' there were missed-off commas and when I read this line I gave up altogether, "The residents of Linden and thus Linden itself were very structured it very regimented" which means sod all !!
So if I were you I'd give this a big old swerve !!
August 16, 2018
I give this only one star because a lot of research went into this effort, and the conclusion is likely correct.
That said, it was painful to read. Very painful. It is written at a grade school level. The thoughts of the author are not expressed well. Some sentences run on and on and on. "Let's eat Grandpa!" or "Let's eat, Grandpa?" Comma's, punctuation and grammer matter! (I added the apostrophe and misspelled grammar on purpose to illustrate my point). The introduction indicates a TV crime solving approach will be done, but it is abandoned partly through the book. Much of the information is repeated, sometimes excessively so; the 269 pages could probably have been edited to 150 pages or less.
It is a pity because it could have been done much better. I do not know if the Kindle version was edited to make it better, but I am unwilling to spend the money to find out.
That said, it was painful to read. Very painful. It is written at a grade school level. The thoughts of the author are not expressed well. Some sentences run on and on and on. "Let's eat Grandpa!" or "Let's eat, Grandpa?" Comma's, punctuation and grammer matter! (I added the apostrophe and misspelled grammar on purpose to illustrate my point). The introduction indicates a TV crime solving approach will be done, but it is abandoned partly through the book. Much of the information is repeated, sometimes excessively so; the 269 pages could probably have been edited to 150 pages or less.
It is a pity because it could have been done much better. I do not know if the Kindle version was edited to make it better, but I am unwilling to spend the money to find out.
December 25, 2016
Constant repetition.
Kept repeating events in question answer format. Boring write up but interesting story. Just didn't the the writing format. Disappointed.
Kept repeating events in question answer format. Boring write up but interesting story. Just didn't the the writing format. Disappointed.
September 2, 2024
The single star is for the inclusion of my great-uncle, former Genesee County DA William Neville. Should have been a short article instead of this disorganized book with endless repetition.
March 19, 2018
Interesting because I live here
Needs a good edit. Cool idea, but it rambles, repeats, has typos and misspellings. I give it there stars, because the research included answered a few questions I had about who lived where. It turns out I live a couple houses away from where the prime suspected resided.
Needs a good edit. Cool idea, but it rambles, repeats, has typos and misspellings. I give it there stars, because the research included answered a few questions I had about who lived where. It turns out I live a couple houses away from where the prime suspected resided.
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