666 Disturbing Deaths and Disappearances

by Benjamin Burrow

This book is a collection of the most unusual and disturbing deaths and disappearances. I have researched thousands of deaths and disappearances before finding the ones that I believe are the most shocking and the most terrifying. What makes them shocking and terrifying? The fact of how powerless the victim was in each situation. Each death and disappearance has a reference below it that you can use for more information. Before going down the list, you should know that some of the deaths that I list here occur after gruesome and extremely violent crimes. If that upsets you, then please do NOT read this book. Furthermore, many of the strange and terrifying disappearances that are listed in this book, happen to children at the hands of some of the most violent human beings to have ever existed. Once again, if that upsets you, then please do NOT read this book.

Genres: True Crime

176 pages, Kindle Edition

First published May 23, 2015

Reviews

[Valerity (Val) · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book tells about hundreds of unusual deaths and disappearances, but is just about a paragraph on each one, with a link added showing the source of the story. So its not in depth at all, just gives you gist of things, and you can delve further into the story if you wish, by using the link.

[Hester · Rating 1 out of 5]

This "ebook" is just a list of deaths with weblinks for each one. Don't be drawn in by the title.

[Pepsi Deshotel Jones · Rating 5 out of 5]

Quick read and informative

Anyone interested in true crime stories will enjoy this book. Some of the stories received national media coverage but not always the conclusion. This book ties up loose ends for many of the cases.

[Rod Walt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Death so good

I couldn't put it down. This is very interesting stuff. I like the links to webpages that are included with each vignette.

[Rose Fondale · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some fiction mixed with nonfiction

This had some interesting cases, many I had not heard about and I liked the links with each case to site the source (when they worked).

But then I discovered that The Weekly World News was a source and then I discovered that there is a list on Snopes that had 20 of the cases in this book listed as The FBI's most important murders or something silly like that. All fake. The one that lead me there was the story of the scientist that poisoned his wife's eyeshadow. His name was Harold Simms or Simmons. I knew that story was too far fetched.

Another thing that bothered me is that toward the end suspects would be referred to by their last name only and many times dates were left out. For example, no date would be given for an abduction but then the date would be given for when the victim was declared dead. I'm wondering if the author just wanted to hurry up and finish.

I'm still giving it 3 stars because I did like reading this book, even with it's flaws.

[Bettye McKee · Rating 4 out of 5]

This book is a treasure trove for diehard true crime fans. It consists of (mostly) short paragraphs about a death or disappearance followed by a link to additional information. Thus you can read through this book quickly or you can spend a longer period of time checking out more information.

Quite often the paragraph omitted essential data such as the year or the location. Avid true crime readers will recognize quite a few of the names. There were three or four duplications and about thirty errors, such as "July 2th, 1931" which should have been caught by an editor or proofreader.

Overall, though, the book contains an abundance of information for readers who choose to follow the links. A few of the links are faulty, but they may have been removed after the book was written.

[Brenna Toel · Rating 1 out of 5]

Possibly some interesting cases, but the entire book is literally a list of cases, nothing longer than a paragraph dedicated to each, with a link to further information after each one. Several grammatical and spelling errors, and many of the links are to Wikipedia.

[Jason Hyatt · Rating 5 out of 5]

Interesting read!!

Insightful, I area
My learned a lot. And some of the cases I even remember from childhood. I did not click the links so I cannot rate them, but overall a good read.

[Erin Cahilly · Rating 3 out of 5]

While the deaths were brief in description, more summary than anything else, I found it very nice that each was followed with an html link to the source article on the web.