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Binding: Mass Market PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 364.15230978793 EAN: 9780312948467 ISBN: 0312948468 Label: St. Martin's True Crime Manufacturer: St. Martin's True Crime Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: March 04, 2008 Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime Release Date: March 04, 2008 Studio: St. Martin's True Crime Editorial Review: Product Description: Casper, Wyoming:1973. Eleven-year-old Amy Burridge rides with her eighteen-year-old sister, Becky, to the grocery store. When they finish their shopping, Becky’s car gets a flat tire. Two men politely offer them a ride home. But they were anything but Good Samaritans. The girls would suffer unspeakable crimes at the hands of these men before being thrown from a bridge into the North Platte River. One miraculously survived. The other did not. Years later, author and journalist Ron Franscell—who lived in Casper at the time of the crime, and was a friend to Amy and Becky—can’t forget Wyoming’s most shocking story of abduction, rape, and murder. Neither could Becky, the surviving sister. The two men who violated her and Amy were sentenced to life in prison, but the demons of her past kept haunting Becky…until she met her fate years later at the same bridge where she’d lost her sister. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Tragic story I was 5 years old when this crime occurred. Despite being a Montanan, I hadn't heard of this Wyoming crime before seeing this book. The book is well written and fairly well organized. It is a very good book and one that I couldn't put down for long. However, although it's interesting, I didn't think the excerpts from Ronald Kennedy's unpublished autobiography needed to be included. It was long and out of place. I'd much rather have read a life sketch of Becky and Amy. Although ... Read More Rating: - You Won't Forget ItThis has to be one of the most haunting crime stories I have read. The torture, both mentally and physically, these two young girls were subjected to is gut wrenching. The residual result of survivor guilt for one will tear your heart out. I must say the writer does repeat himself over and over again. This became frustrating causing me to skip through the book to the actual case. One other comment...It bothered me that the writer would write many pages of the book using ... Read More Rating:  - A little disappointedThis was not written well. Elimate the repeated and repeated and repeated sentences the story could be told in a book 1/3 size of the purchased book. Elimate the repeated and repeated and repeated sentences the story could be told in a book 1/3 size of the purchased book. Elimate the repeated and repeated and repeated sentences the story could be told in a book 1/3 size of the purchased book. See what I mean. Rating:  - One of the most horrific crimes in American history...The story Becky Thompson and Amy Burridge is one that continues to haunt the American psyche more than three decades later. The darkness that these poor girls were subjected to goes beyond evil, into the realm of the demonic. I would like to say that these events were unique, but unfortunately they are not, as evidenced by other such true accounts in books like: Pure Murder (Pinnacle True Crime) and Sex Kill: Lust crimes that shocked a generation! Read More Rating: - Haunting.Amazon Kept Recommending this book to me and I would ignore it because I had never heard of the Author.I found it in the book store the other day,decided to pick it up. I'm so glad I did! This book is so different than the regular True Crime that we usualy see.It goes more into the effect of what a Horrible crime does to the Survivor,Community as well as the Author.It is a very well written,touching story.It has broken my heart and this case will stay with me for a lifetimeI highly recommend it for not ... Read More |
