Who Killed These Girls?: The Unsolved Murders That Rocked a Texas Town

But after eight years of misdirected investigations, only two suspects (teenagers at the time of the crime) were tried; their convictions were later overturned and detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Beverly Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a novel, heart-stopping and thoroughly engrossing.. The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged, burned bodies of four girls--each one shot in the head--were found in a frozen yogurt shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror overtook the c

Truc said A compelling read. Exhaustively researched. A tragic series of events over a long period of tine - with. no winners. A fascinating look at the toll the crime can take on everyone involved, from the families of the victims, to the cops, to the defense lawyers, to the prosecutors, to the judge, to the whole community.. This is a great read. Author did a very good job of This is a great read. Author did a very good job of exposing the dark side of dirty interview tactics and delving into the details.. Twenty-five years and still no answer Emilio Corsetti III How is it that so many supposed professionals can look at a confession that has every indication of being coerced continue with a prosecution? It's unbelievable to me that so many detectives, prosecutors, district attorneys, judges, and jurors can be so incompetent that they can't use common sense when deciding someone's life. If a detective has to feed details of the crime to a person making a confession so that his confession matches the evidence, that is not a confession. If t

. She lives in Austin, Texas. Her writing has appeared in the The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mississippi Review, Granta, and many other publications. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. BEVERLY LOWRY is the author of six novels and three previous works of

This transcends the genre. Her character studies only get better.” —Larry McMurtry . A terror-filled thrill ride which is captivating from start to finish.” —New York Journal of Books “Beverly Lowry is rapidly becoming the Zola of Central Texas. Lowry works the case from a human rather than a forensic angle.”—The New York Times Book Review“A page turner. In its swift pacing, intimate peeks into the characters’ lives, and deep research and reportage, Who Killed These Girls? features everything we wish for in a book about an event we wish had never happened.” —Los Angeles Review of Books “Gripping well-researched and thought provoking. Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murd