If anyone is after a new true crime book (there was a somewhat controversial plea bargain in the case just the other day so it is still an ongoing concern despite the crime being 20 years old) I can recommend Jax Williams's "Hell in the Heartland" with the caveat that some of her more literary pretensions do not land (with me anyway) and you have to just live with the Capote-on-the-Prairie flourishes to get to the actual story. And the actual story is BONKERS and VERY SAD. She has clearly done the journalistic hard yards of years spent in these communities reporting it out and gaining trust of people not apt to easy trusting so I am more tolerant of the over-writing in parts because there's also a lot of beef there. In a lifetime of reading true crime, I have come across a lot of truly terrible police work but I have to say the OK Bureau of Investigation take the absolute bloody cake for their contemptuous indifference in the early stages of this case. I was screaming profanities at my device within the first 15% of my kindle edition. I don't know if these white rural Oklahomians can see anything of themselves in BLM activists, but boy they should. I don't want to give away spoilers if you're not aware of the case, as I would like it to unspool in fury and terror like it did for me but believe me, it is infuriating as well as being a great tragedy.
I loved Summer of Sam so much! I’m surprised critics hated it. Back in the day my dad named our chocolate lab mix Mira Sorvino because she had sad gooey eyes like the actor. I miss the Miras.
If anyone is after a new true crime book (there was a somewhat controversial plea bargain in the case just the other day so it is still an ongoing concern despite the crime being 20 years old) I can recommend Jax Williams's "Hell in the Heartland" with the caveat that some of her more literary pretensions do not land (with me anyway) and you have to just live with the Capote-on-the-Prairie flourishes to get to the actual story. And the actual story is BONKERS and VERY SAD. She has clearly done the journalistic hard yards of years spent in these communities reporting it out and gaining trust of people not apt to easy trusting so I am more tolerant of the over-writing in parts because there's also a lot of beef there. In a lifetime of reading true crime, I have come across a lot of truly terrible police work but I have to say the OK Bureau of Investigation take the absolute bloody cake for their contemptuous indifference in the early stages of this case. I was screaming profanities at my device within the first 15% of my kindle edition. I don't know if these white rural Oklahomians can see anything of themselves in BLM activists, but boy they should. I don't want to give away spoilers if you're not aware of the case, as I would like it to unspool in fury and terror like it did for me but believe me, it is infuriating as well as being a great tragedy.
Apologies, authors name is Miller not Williams.
I loved Summer of Sam so much! I’m surprised critics hated it. Back in the day my dad named our chocolate lab mix Mira Sorvino because she had sad gooey eyes like the actor. I miss the Miras.