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Dark Son

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I enjoyed reading this book and found it well written and detailed. I personally don't buy the "Adopted Child Syndrome" as an excuse for murder, nor do I think most readers will, but it was the last resort of a desperate defense team. Some of the trial scenes toward the end got a bit dry, but all in all, this book is worth reading.

I met Matthew before I read the book and after I read it I was really scared to persue the friendship any longer. I carefully removed myself from his life and had nightmares. I think to go visit him after reading and knowing this is a death wish! The book was great but I was distracted by my shock about it's details. Great crime story if that's your thing.

I have read the Book "The Dark Son". I have also personally written to, spoken to, and visited the famed Matthew Heikkila. In my opinion, the book does not do Matthew justice, as it is written from a point of view that wasnt very well informed. The author "forgot" key points of the crime, making Matthew out to be a cold blooded, heartless murderer. Today, he is a man regretting his past, and only looking for someone to accept him for who he is now, and not who he was on a cold January day in 1991.

I knew Matthew H. My family knew Dick and Dawn. I've LIVED thru this horrible mess directly and have read this book. If you want to support Denise Lang and support a double murder then buy this book. I urge you to read it, absorb the horror this "person" inflicted not only on his own family, but the families who knew Dawn, Dick and Josh. Matthew should enjoy every day in prison, he will never be free thank God. Death would have been the easy way out for Matthew, and I pray every day his life is full of misery, horror, and violence he inflicted on the two people who so lovingly supported him. I hope Matthew suffers each and every day. I hope God offers him a long, long life so he can reflect daily on the horrific crimes he committed. Long life Matthew, until the day he dies and goes straight to hell.