ungerna's review
5.0
Great book. Very informative. I had never heard of this ME before. Usually you just hear about Michael Baden when referring to New York,, but apparently, he's famous up there too. I really liked the last chapter, especially where he analyzes Mel Gibson's movie The Passion of the Christ and how the injuries and intense beatings the movie portrayed would have caused several medical issues that he did not seem to suffer as well as the impossibility of him being able to "carry on" after some of the things that happened.
bookswithcassie's review
3.0
This is a very interesting book and I would recommend it to anyone interested in true crime. The only downside was all the technical explanations because I already knew much of the information given. I understand why the authors included it, but having been interested in true crime for so long it was very repetitive information. Since this book was based on cases from the around the eighties I was able to find out lots of things that I didn't already know about what was going on in the world at that time. Also, there are very graphic black and white pictures toward the middle of the book that I didn't know were going to be there. It was quite a shock to turn the page and see the images but were helpful visuals for some of the cases.
rickyvalles's review
dark
inspiring
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
4.75
Fast read, about interesting cases. That author does a good job at describing his cases and keeping it interesting.
raehink's review
4.0
This book is full of forensic tidbits (more than most books I have found). I loved it.
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