It's Not About the Truth: The Untold Story of the Duke Lacrosse Rape Case and the Lives It Shattered

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Mike Pressler walked into the bottomfloor meeting room of the Murray

Building and, as he had done hundreds of times over a sixteen-year career

at Duke University, prepared to address his men's lacrosse team. Forty-six

players sat in theater-style chairs, all eyes riveted forward.

It was 4:35 P.M. on Wednesday, April 5, 2006. The program's darkest hour

had arrived in an unexpected and explosive announcement.

Pressler, a three-time ACC Coach of the Year, informed his team that its

season was canceled and he had "resigned," effective immediately. While

his words reverberated off the walls, hysteria erupted. Players cried,

confused over a course of events that had spun wildly out of control.

What began as an off-campus team party with two hired strippers had

accelerated into a rape investigation -- one that exposed prosecutorial

misconduct, shoddy police work, an administration's rush to judgment,

and the media's disregard for the facts -- dividing both a prestigious

university and the city of Durham.

Wiping away tears, Pressler demonstrated the steely resolve that helped

him win more than two hundred games. For the next thirty minutes, Pressler

put his personal situation aside and encouraged his players to stick

together. He also made a bold promise: "One day, we will get a chance to

tell the world the truth. One day."

This is that day.

Pressler, who has not done an interview since the saga began, has handed

his private diary from those three weeks to New York Times bestselling

author Don Yaeger, exposing vivid details, including the day Pressler was

fired, when the coach asked Athletic Director Joe Alleva why the school

"wasn't willing to wait for the truth" to come out. "It's not about the

truth anymore," Alleva said to the coach in a signature moment that said

it all. In addition to Pressler, Yaeger interviewed more than seventy-five

key figures intimately involved in the case. The result is a tale that

defies logic.

"It is tough to be one of fifty people who believed a story when fifty

million people believed something else," Pressler said. "This wasn't

about the truth to many of the others involved. My story is all about the

truth."

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REQUIRED READING ON THE DUKE CASE.......2007-09-29

I am giving this book 5 stars because of its importance. It is not as well written as Stuart Taylor, Jr., and KC Johnson's UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT, but it contains a good chronology of events and contains much more on Mike Pressler and his family. It's awkward at some points to have Don Yeager as the teller instead of Pressler. Some readers will regret Mike Pressler did not have the time and money to expand his own diary of the events in the Duke lacrosse case as a separate book; I would have paid more to have the actual diary printed here. Nevertheless, this is a very important book. It's most valuable for the portrait of the Presslers. Unless Sue Pressler writes her own book, we may never have a more powerful depiction of the splendid American family, the Presslers, including the daughters. One of the treasures of this book is the letter fifteen year old Janet Pressler wrote to Richard Brodhead on 24 March 2007. Poignantly she tells the President of Duke University, "I would have liked this letter to be one in which I described your heroism in your loyalty, leadership, and decisions during the events of last March [2006], but it didn't turn out that way. The lives of my family and the lives of hundreds of others involved in the Duke lacrosse were irrevocably changed because of decisions made by you and your staff. In the end, our sacrifice made no positive difference. No apology or promise can restore the lives we led last year." Any reader will rejoice at the portrait of a great, loving, honorable American family. Mike and Sue Pressler--what a pair!
The Duke case is a great national story of a rogue prosecutor and his minions, of the rogue mainstream media (who can watch Nancy Grace now without loathing her? or trust the New York Times?), of a racist sexist tenured faculty leaping to precisely the wrong conclusions about victimization in the name of political correctness, of a hapless and ultimately conscienceless university president, Richard Brodhead, whose name on Google is linked forever with the words "pandering," "weak-kneed," "cowardly," "craven," "contemptible," and "rush to [the wrong] judgment." As NEWSWEEK said on 10 September 2007, "Brodhead and Nifong had an almost willful disregard for the facts." "Almost" is charitable. Brodhead said that "the facts kept changing" (p. 210); but as a senior, William Wolcott, says, "Hey, facts don't change. The truth doesn't change." What Brodhead and the Gang of 88 did "was bad enough," in Brodhead's memorable words, but the Gang has gained greater power on committees at Duke, and Brodhead seems set to pass his third year review.
The most optimistic news in this book, as in the Taylor-Johnson book, is the potential power for good in a new twenty-first century resource, the bloggers. Blog-hooligans, the politically correct Duke professor Cathy Davidson called them. The bloggers, having not only more brains than the Duke Gang of 88 but a robust capacity for humor, seized on the insult as a badge of honor. Blog-hooligans for the Truth! Finally, what this book celebrates is an old-fashioned American sense of humor, decency, friendship, loyalty, love. It's wonderful to see at least a few people behaving like, well, like heroes, like the Americans Ken Burns is portraying right now on PBS.

Even Better than Expected.......2007-09-21

KC Johnson should start his next book immediately and think about a career change. He is too valuable to the truth to limit himself to one classroom at a time.
lightenup

Sympy and biased.......2007-09-21

A quote from the book "this is the worst miscarriage of justice in North Carolina" history. Really? There is no excuse for the terrible injustice done to the Duke students. However, I strongly suspect that North Carolina has lynchings of blacks in its history. The Duke students' harrowing year, financial losses, etc. pale in comparison to losing one's life. Of course, I'm sorry that the coach lost his job. A close friend lost a job to a trumped up charge of sexual harrassment. This kind of thing happens daily. It isn't right. I was bored and sick of chronicles in this book about the day-to-day experiences of the coach and his wife and family during the ordeal. What happened to them was horrible, but not so unusual for people who live in the real world. This shows just how insulated people of privilege are. They don't even know that stuff like this happens to the little person all the time. And, the little person lacks the resources to fight it. For example, my friend could have cleared his name from the fallacious sexual harrassment charges; but, it was cost effective to find a new job rather than spend tens of thousands of dollars to clear his name and get back a job that he no longer wished to have. Wake up guys! People are unfairly charged and unfairly lose their jobs every day. Over 2000 innocent people have lost decades of their life falsely imprisoned, who have been recently exonerated on DNA evidence. How many other innocents die in jail because they aren't so lucky to have an advocate or the evidence to exonerate them? So, why is this a travesty of justice more deserving of symphathy than the others that happen daily? Is it because these were "good boys" or because they are "elite athletes" who only hired strippers, not hookers, this time. There are lots of people who get caught up in the net who are doing things that are much less disreputable than hiring strippers. The real travesty to me is how Mike Nifong was able to string along the media and the country for so long. More checks and balances need to be in place to prevent one bad actor, along with help from a few other individuals, to perpetrate this. And, this book is correct that those who rushed to a conclusion (done all the time) need to retain an open mind and admit when newly presented facts start painting a different picture than initially presented. But, according to this book, it seems as only left wingers rush to a conclusion and fail to correct themselves. It must be nice to always be right, so to speak.
This book is not worth the paper it was printed upon. It was so painful to read that I had to skim the last couple chapters. I couldn't take it any more.

It Should Have Been An Easy Not Guilty/Innocent.......2007-09-01

..... but, as we all know, it was not. There were many students at the party. There were many witnesses to what happened in close proximaty. Good interviews would determine if the claims of innocence were, in fact, true or if there was a cover up going on. There were too many witnesses present for a cover up to be successful. Why wasn't this realized?

It is about the truth and this truth is depressing.......2007-08-22

This is a great book. It tells a compelling story. Chances are that you know some of the story. Indeed, you couldn't avoid it if you read a newspaper or had cable television access in the past year. I thought I knew the story, but I did not know the half of it until I read the book. Unfortunately, the facts and the eventual outcome are sure to depress you.

As for myself, I knew right away that the Duke lacrosse case was a hoax. Ok, I wasn't one hundred percent positive. However, I was 99% sure.
Why? Two reasons. First, this whole tale ideally fit the template of victimhood and oppression that the media and university professors adhere to like a religion, and it allowed them to recklessly push their radical social agenda. Secondly, I know Mike Pressler and his character.

I know Mike from being a college football teammate at Washington and Lee over twenty years ago. Mike had the good fortune of playing for two head coaches in lacrosse and football that were good coaches but even better men. Mike spent eight seasons with Jack Emmer (lacrosse) and Gary Fallon (football) and was captain of both sports. He learned at the foot of two of the finest gentlemen I have ever met. In my mind, there was no way that Mike was defending those kids if they were truly guilty of a heinous crime like rape. I am not saying that Mike is or was a choirboy, but I always respected Mike tremendously. To borrow a Coach Fallonism, if I was stuck in a foxhole, I would be glad to have him next to me. After reading the book, would you want Richard Brodhead or Joe Alleva in your foxhole?

As for the role of the professors and the media. Both deserve ridicule and shame. It is now well known that Mike Nifong is a prevaricating piece of trash. However, he had willing accomplices to aid and abet his capricious actions. The behavior of the 88 professors who signed on to the "we're listening" ad is reprehensible. How many have apologized for convicting these young men before knowing the facts? If they were really listening, some might have the humility to say a simple "I'm sorry". Don't hold your breath. The ad should have read, "we're promoting a radical agenda". And, as for the media, they breathlessly reported how these rich white boys attacked a poor defenseless single mom. Not true, oh well, they were rich and deserved the abuse anyway.

I don't want to spoil the text of the tale for those will read the book. I highly recommend you do.

In the end, the results are what bother me:
President Richard Brodhead- You are the antithesis of a leader. A man with virtually no courage. Yet, you will continue to lead one of the finest universities in the nation.
AD Joe Alleva- You are as spineless as a jellyfish. Yet, you will continue to prosper as AD of Duke. Hold tightly to Coach K's coattails!
The gang of 88- As a group, you are totally wrapped up in your left wing radical agenda. In this case, you raised rabble, created a ruckus, brought unbelievably negative attention to your fine institution. And, when proven wrong, you uttered not a word of apology. Congratulations on setting a fine example for the youth you are charged to educate.
Mike Pressler- Forced to resign from his job, move from his home and uproot his family.
Finnerty, Seligmann, Evans and families- Your lives were almost ruined. What a miscarriage of justice that you were indicted. Thankfully, you were never wrongfully convicted.
The rest of the 2006 team- You lost the chance to compete for the 2006 national championship. The seniors lost their last season and many lost lucrative, well-deserved job offers.

Duke is a school that has pined to be "Ivy League". Years ago, I read a book Poisoned Ivy, by Benjamin Hart. The book chronicled how a radical left faculty and administration at Dartmouth had affected life on campus for the student body. With the likes of Brodhead and the gang of 88, it looks like Duke is as poisoned as any "Ivy League" school.

The "elite" educators of Duke could learn a lot from some of the parents of the Duke players (look for vignettes on Patricia Dowd and Lincoln Payton) that they let down so grandly. Perhaps the Duke alums (and alums of many fine schools with similarly dysfunctional faculties)should stop writing checks for a while.

A Question of Innocence: A True Story of False Accusation

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A Question of Innocence: A True Story of False Accusation
Lawrence D. Spiegel
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The golem of Prague: A new adaption of the documented stories of the golem of Prague

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Loved the Golem -- I recommend it

The golem of Prague: A new adaption of the documented stories of the golem of Prague
Gershon Winkler
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Experience one of the most startling and controversial metaphysical Jewish events of all time: the creation of a golem, a man crafted out of clay by the exalted Rabbi Yehudah Loevy ben Bezalel (the Maharal) of Prague to protect sixteenth-century Jews from persecution. The author skillfully captures the essence of the golem and examines its aftermath objectively. Features a dramatized adaptation of the documented adventures of the golem and includes a comprehensive overview of Jewish mysticism, black magic, demonology, miracles and science, plus a summary of other golems in Jewish history. Read it for pleasure as well as perspective.

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Loved the Golem -- I recommend it.......2000-05-24

Whether you believe in the Golem or not, Gershon Winkler's book is enchanting. The tales he weaves, which help us to see the Maharal (Rabbi Yehuda Loewy) in a more human role, are full of Jewish folklore and kabbalistic references.

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A shotgun blast blows away beautiful thirty-one-year-old Monica Dunn, the mother of three young daughters, in the bedroom of her suburban home. Her husband stands only feet away from her. Is it suicide or murder?Police officer Paul Dunn is suspected of killing his estranged wife. Maintaining his innocence, he is ostracized by his fellow officers and friends, is condemned by Monica's well-connected family, loses custody of his children, and is finally indicted for murder by a grand jury.As a trial that gain national attention ensues, Monica reached from beyond the grave with an avenging testament. But will her chilling words convict Paul Dunn, or free him?A real-life whodunit, Grave Accusations exposes the shocking secrets of a doomed marriage and a sensational trial that would destroy lives and tear apart a town with whispers of betrayal, obsessive romance, and violent death.

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Not an unbiased story........2004-10-20

I violated my own cardinal rule -- don't read anything that the accused has had a part in writing! I still don't have an iron-clad opinion about whether or not the victim's husband killed her. I think he certainly could've, but then, there is some evidence pointing to accidental death (I don't believe it was suicide). But this was written with a definite slant towards the husband's innocence. Much of it was written in a very unprofessional, unpolished manner, which I assume was hubby Paul's contribution. I thought it a poor attempt at exonerating Paul Dunn and was disappointed overall in the book.

With a New Mexico accent.......2004-06-20

"Grave Accusations" concerns the suspicious death of Monica Dunn. She was the former wife of Paul Dunn, a Farmington, New Mexico cop. The circumstances of Monica's demise are questionable, to say the least. In an apparent rush to judgement by the local District Attorney, Paul is charged with her murder. Officer Dunn claims Monica committed suicide. GA proceeds from this adversarial stating point and follows the cases of both prosecution and defense. Although the text is slow paced and frequently repetitive, suspense is maintained until the jury renders its verdict. Readers are advised that despite the "maintenance of suspense", authoress Egger is scarcely an impartial observer. She wrote GA in cooperation with the defendant! Consequently, the prosecution's viewpoint is downplayed, if not almost scorned. The local D.A.and his expert witnesses are labeled as venal, politically motivated and even incompetent. Egger then proceeds to portray the defense team as crusaders for justice when they really are just well -paid hired guns. Two observations on those centerfold photos: They are boring and far from " startling", as the book jacket claims. They are as bland as can be. They neither shed light on the resolution nor do they humanize the characters. The "Ann Rule rule" is NOT in effect! GA is still recommended. At least it is different. How many true crime tales are set in remote Northwestern New Mexico? True crime aficionados should be satisfied with GA if they can ignore the overstated evidence and hold Egger's preset prejudices in abeyance.

Amazing story.......2004-06-11

This isn't much of a whodunnit, per se. You know fairly early on which side the author is on. (This is likely because so many people on the opposite side refused to cooperate). However, you really don't know if justice is going to be done until the end of the case.
I produced a TV show on the case, and the book is extremely accurate. The writing -- like most true-crime writing--left me underwhelmed because it seems so overblown. But if you want to learn how the justice system does and does not work, this is an excellent look at it. A good explanation of the politics, pressures, and forensic analysis that are crucial in so many cases.

Clean your closets instead..........2004-05-04

I am a very avid true crime reader and this has to be the weakest book I have ever read! I wish Ann Rule or W. Phelps did this story..with an unbiased view..Ms. Egger failed there...St. Martin did a great job with the cover...I want my $7 back...

Well-written, Interesting, chilling!.......2004-04-13

I'm amazed at what the prosecutors did in this case, and especially the medical investigator! A regular who-dun-it, where you're thinking in one direction for half the book, then you believe the total opposite about the crime at the end. (I don't want to spoil it for you!) Frightening about this book is this could happen to anyone.

I read a lot of true crime books and found this one up there with the best of 'em. Well researched, lots of interviews, a broad perspective of "both sides" of the situation. Pretty unbelievable but true!

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Story of an Accusation
Terence Reese
Manufacturer: Better Bridge Now
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Accusation (Hi/Lo Passages - Mystery Novel)
Anne E. Schraff
Manufacturer: Perfection Learning
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Binding: Library Binding

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Cult Fiction: Standing in the Fire of Accusation (A True Story)

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Response by the founder of Momentus Training to those claiming it is a non-Christian cult.

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Get Ready to Deal with Evil Incarnate
Not memorable
Southern California Violence
In the desert.
Colossal Ignorance Mars Well Told Tale

God Is a Bullet
Boston Teran
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ASIN: 0375401881
Release Date: 1999-03-23

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The feral wasteland of the southern California desert and the badlands of Mexico: these are the settings for Boston Teran's searing debut novel--a dark, wrenching thriller about personal conviction, retribution, and survival.

Fall 1970. In a remote playa a twelve-year-old boy stumbles upon a hideous scene in a dust-strewn trailer: the savage murder of a woman that will remain unsolved for twenty-five years.

Christmas week, 1995. A fourteen-year-old girl is kidnapped by a bloodthirsty satanic cult that calls itself the Left-Handed Path. The leader, Cyrus, considers murder the "ultimate freedom, ultimate joy . . . ultimate service." His "tribe" is a group of drug-fueled young psychopaths honing their skills under the tutelage of a master. Helter Skelter. And then some.

Bob Hightower, the girl's father, is a cop, suddenly more desperate than he ever imagined possible. There are no clues to his daughter's whereabouts, only a scene of unfathomable carnage--the mutilated corpses of her mother and stepfather--left behind by the kidnappers. His only hope is a fierce ex-cult member named Case Hardin, a woman tempered to an extraordinary strength by what she's endured, who's just getting off the junkie trail in a halfway house in Hollywood. Bob has absolutely no reason, and every need, to trust her.

Case suspects that the killings, committed within fifty miles of each other and separated by a quarter of
a century, are part of a byzantine nightmare she knows too well, a nightmare that has now engulfed Bob's daughter. Their quest--he for his child, she to exorcise her demons--becomes a primal hunt-and-chase through a savage subculture of drugs and ritualistic violence ("the black land of plenty") that takes them inexorably toward the limits of physical and psychological torment and trauma.

God Is a Bullet is an indelible story of people who must discover what it means to surrender oneself
completely--to drugs, or power, or faith, or love--and, when necessary, what it takes to come back. It is
a stunning debut.

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Get Ready to Deal with Evil Incarnate.......2006-08-01

Bob Hightower is a "cardboard cop", he patrols from a desk, and does fill-ins on night shifts. He gets a call that his ex-wife and her husband have been murdered by a "Manson" style cult, who have also kidnapped his fourteen year old daughter. While trying to track down the killer, he gets the feeling that the Sheriff doesn't seem to be in a hurry to solve this murder, in fact he seems to be getting in the way.

After a couple of months without hearing from his daughters kidnappers, and without any real clues, he begins going through letters and phone calls, no matter how strange. He finds a letter from Case Hardin, who spent seventeen years in a satanic cult. She thinks she knows who has his daughter, the only problem is that she's been a junkie for years and has just got 'sober' for the third time.

Case then takes Bob (who she calls Bob Whatever) on a hunt for her old leader "Cyrus". Cyrus has taken Bob's daughter for 'blooding'; which Case says is payback for something someone in his family has done to Cyrus. After taking Bob through the underbelly of civilization (including a tatooing, so he will fit in better), they battle Cyrus and his cult and get his daughter back.

If you're interested in a 'different' style of detective novel and want to learn about the 'other side' of faith (isn't the devil the flip side of god) this book is a good place to start.

Not memorable.......2006-04-11

It is an O.K. book. Not memorable. I kept huffing and puffing midway through the book because I had already figured out the plot, which is obvious at that point. It kept dragging, and dragging, and dragging. But I had to finish it because that's just the type of girl I am.

True suspense books are suspenseful until the end. This one isn't.

Southern California Violence.......2005-11-20

I couldn't find a photograph of Boston Teran anywhere on the internet after I finished this book. I'm not sure why that bothered me so much, but it did. Anyway, this is a very engaging and graphic tale of revenge and repentence in a lawless Southern California setting.

Bob Hightower's daughter is kidnapped by an ultraviolent sex cult, and Bob learns a lot about himself as he goes to extreme lengths to save her. The one woman who can help Bob used to be a member of this cult--she's kicked her drug habit and really has no reason to live until she reads about Bob's daughter's kidnapping. She knows who did it by some crimescene details, and she knows how to find the head of this cult so Bob can save his daughter. What follows is an adventure for Bob and Case (the ex-junkie) as Bob changes his entire life and appearance to hunt more effectively, and Case puts her life on the line to save at least one other.

The writing is a bit rambling and is sometimes hard to follow, but it is quite thoughtful at times with streaks of a sort of stark philosophy of desperation and atheism that is quite convincing. The head of the cult is truly horrible, and it helps us like our protagonists more when we know their enemy deserves anything he gets by way of punishment.

Reading Teran's debut novel was an eyeopening experience--much like reading Kim Wozencraft's Rush was for me a few years ago. If you can tolerate the violence, there's some stark realism in this violent novel of retribution and redemption.

In the desert........2005-09-30

Where to begin? For this author's style, less is definitely more. His poetic imagery of the austere, harsh desert landscape is almost palpable, yet as compacted as it gets. Every word, each phrase is like a single jewel that becomes a glittering mosaic seen through a kaleidoscope. Not one word is wasted, and every single, simple phrase evokes a multitude of images. The language sets the stage for the unforgettable characters. Cyrus has got to be the most monstrous sociopath in the history of literature. Case is the most interesting and unique heroine I've ever met. And bumbling Bob is a decent, average guy caught up in extraordinarily traumatic circumstances that turn an ordinary man into a hero. This is a story of cruelty and greed, of the power of love, of triumph over evil. The ending is perfect, but it made me long to know how Bob, Case and Gabi made out after the end of the book. I would hope they all lived reasonably happily ever after.

More than worth the all-too-short time it takes to read it from cover to cover.

Colossal Ignorance Mars Well Told Tale.......2005-03-19

Teran obviously worked hard on this riveting tale of evil, murder and drugs. However, as much as the action of this book depends on various guns, it's grossly obvious neither Teran nor any of his editors know even the barest amount about guns, which leads to such colossally ignorant writing as : "He slips the revolver out of his belt. He clicks off the safety, slips out the cylinder, and lets the bullets fall one by one to the sand." Folks, I'll say this as simply as possible: revolvers don't have a safety. That's about as basic as gun knowledge can get. It's hard to maintain much belief in a story containing such bewilderment concerning a major element of the plot. And then add to that the constant switching by Case and Bob of what kind of gun they supposedly carry, and this aspect of the story is just laughable. I also wonder why Brooklyn-born Californian Teran finds is appropriate to use the British variant "calibre" when he means the "caliber" of the American-made Ruger Blackhawk. Authors need to know what they are writing about, or at least find editorial help to backstop their areas of ignorance. Sadly, this otherwise fine first novel is ruined for me by just such a failure of knowledge.

Grave Accusations: A Suspicious Death, a Husband's Arrest, a Fight for Justice--A True Story

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Dave Feffer is not what he appears to be in this book!
grave concerns
Sad story, who is Dave Pfeffer?
Not true
Just a step under GOD

Grave Accusations: A Suspicious Death, a Husband's Arrest, a Fight for Justice--A True Story
Andrea Egger , and Paul Dunn
Manufacturer: New Horizon Press
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In a New Mexico town, a Latina beauty dies by shotgun wound. Nobody believes Monica Dunn, who has all men's eyes upon her flaunted, voluptous body, would die by her own hand. But an enigmatic letter Monica wrote before her death is discovered.

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Dave Feffer is not what he appears to be in this book!.......2006-05-06

Dave Feffer is someone who manipulates evidence and people in other cases and has let other criminals go free. He is NOT the hero that he appears to be in this book. He is a deceitful and evil man who is in it for the money and fame it provides him with and he doesn't care about who he has hurt or victimized in the process. I know of two families devistated by his involvement and actions in other court cases. Don't believe everything that you read. Do the research on the other things that he has done.

grave concerns.......2004-04-12

The book held my interest and even after over a year from the time I read it, the details still stand out.It seems that Andrea stayed close to factual information in both presenting the characters and the incidences. I would highy recommend it to friends who like mysteries.

Sad story, who is Dave Pfeffer?.......2003-11-08

It is sad to think that a man like Paul Dunn can be charged with and taken to court for a crime he did not commit. I am glad that the truth came out and that he is with his children and hopefully doing well after all the media attention and bad times that he went through. I would like to meet Dave Pfeffer, the private detective who gathered all the information that was brought before the jury who in the end, freed Paul Dunn. I think I have seen him on Forensic Files and A and E programs. If I ever get into any trouble, I'm sure going to call him to help me.

Not true.......2002-11-26

I happen to know exactly what happened throughout the ordeal of Paul Dunn and his trial. All of you who believe this is a truthful story have been decieved. He left out very vital information that led you to believe that he was completely innocent. He failed to mention how he managed to hide the evidence that led to the verdict. Paul got lucky.

Just a step under GOD.......2002-04-05

You sure can tell that the accused was helping to write this book. I think this is one of the worst books I have read in ages. Paul Dunn would like the world to know what a champ he is. I, for one have decided he is anything but. I feel bad for his dead wife. He has placed himself right up there with god. I sure think that he probably got away with MURDER. This was a very disappointing book. DO NOT BOTHER WITH THIS BOOK!!!!!!! It is very one sided and slow moving.

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One Hour (Chapel Hill Books)
Lillian Smith
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