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Book Review of Justice for Bonnie: An Alaskan Teenager's Murder and Her Mother's Tireless Crusade for the Truth

Justice for Bonnie: An Alaskan Teenager's Murder and Her Mother's Tireless Crusade for the Truth
Helpful Score: 1


I really liked the level of honesty the author showed. She doesn't try to make her family look perfect. Her initial response to the murder of her daughter resulted in some actions & comments which she later found were not entirely justified. As facts eventually (nearly 2 decades later) emerged she found things she'd been told weren't true, assumptions she'd made might not have been well-founded, just the usual confusion surrounding law enforcement & courts trying to shut out the victim's family in order to preserve confidentiality. It is a most interesting story about a lovely young college student who falls prey to a monster who should never have been running loose. But the story focuses a great deal on the effect on her family. Well worth reading I think.