Born Bad [Paperback]

Bill G. Cox (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 1, 1996

A close-up look at teenage killer Jason Massey describes his fascination with serial killers Ted Bundy and Henry Lee Lucas, childhood torture experiments, and brutal rape, murder, and mutilation of a young girl and the killing of another teenage boy. Original.

Product Details

• Paperback: 320 pages
• Publisher: Pinnacle (June 1, 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0786002743
• ISBN-13: 978-0786002740
• Product Dimensions: 6.6 x 4.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.3 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (12 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #669,879 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Tons Of Details, TRUE STORY, peo., plac., & time accurate!, October 3, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Born Bad (Paperback)

I loved the book, I live in the city that it happened in and everything is in detail to the fullest. There is no covering up or anything. I do with they would make a movie out of this. The murderer is amazing, and its shocking that this happened in such a little place.

4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Book to Movie, April 14, 2004

By A Customer

This review is from: Born Bad (Paperback)

I live about 15 miles from where this happened then I was 15 yrs old. It was very shocking to realize that this was happening somewhere near by. This guy Jason Massey really needed help. I don't feel sorry because he was raised bad. I think it depends on yourself what you want to be and become off. When this crime was committed I was hanging out with my friends, and running around. But now as a parent I see things different and this book after so many years it open my eyes to reality that this can happen anywhere. I think it would be good to make this a movie, although I think the victims family would not like that. You hardly ever see something like this happening in a small home town where you didn't have to lock your doors. It was a good book but I think it's time a movie came out. For those who didn't know he was put to death that still doesn't make up for what he did.

6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars A Reader, July 12, 2004

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Amanda (Canberra, Australia) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Born Bad (Paperback)

I read Born Bad while I was on holiday in Fiji - can I just say that if you are reading this book I would read it short bursts, don't read it for hours on end like I did right before you I went to sleep.

I have read alot of horrifying books in my time but let me tell you this one sears itself into your memory I suffered some of the worst nightmares ever from this book. I found it very hard to believe that a young man that was as sick as he was, saying the things he said to anyone who would listen, was left to walk around terrorising society - not a soul reported him, nobody. I think a large number of people need to realise this sort of behaviour was like a red flag. Those poor children who were murdered because no one said a word - tragic.

Jason Massey was a sadistic lust murderer who voided his right to live by brutally torturing and murdering two poor kids who trusted the wrong person.

I think society as a whole has to take responsibility for Jason Massey and all those like him, as the book says females between the ages of 10 and 40 were at risk of crossing paths and dying violently with the female hating Jason Massey. Not to mention all the poor innocent animals he raped and murdered.

Born Bad is a terrifying but very real story of an extremely disturbed boy that grew up into a brutal monster and he could be living in your neighbourhood or terrorising your children.

God forbid...