516 pages
This is a book that you would have to get from the stacks, and its just as well. While I do enjoy reading True Crime, sometimes it is more disturbing than I would like. What was most upsetting was that something like this even happened in the first place, let alone reading an account of the whole egregious event. I was outraged every time I picked up the book and read more. This book is fairly old, and he crime happened five or six years before the book came out. It was also a grueling read because it was simply way too long, and Lefkowitz rehashes a lot of points along the way.The main thing that kept me hanging on through this was the examination of the affluent suburb where the accused were born and raised, and of the attitudes of the people who lived there at the time. No one wanted to believe this could happen, but it was a place not unlike any other in the country. The perpetrators of this crime were young men who were outwardly successful in sports, and in school, yet rarely had to suffer any real consequences for their actions. Glad to be done with this one.
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