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Fatal Error

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As an avid true crime fan, I found this book to be little more than just another story about two people plotting the murder of a third. There is no insight provided with regard to the Sharee character -- We are presented with "what she did", but there is no real exploration of her character - & what really motivated her. In my opinion, the book cover (with its lurid picture and "Internet hype") clearly suggested something more than this book was able to deliver.

If you want to read a GOOD book about Internet deception and murder, I would highly recommend "The Internet Slavemaster" by John Glat. Insofar as character development, the book probably does not deliver much more than "Fatal Error", but there is certainly a lot more action, deception, and murder.

I was there.... and I could not have written this story as well as the authors, Paul Janczewski and Mark Morris. Three different people, three diffrent time lines, laced in three diffrent lives. Like lacing your tennis shoes, Sharee Miller would weave a deadly lie between her husband, Bruce Miller, and her internet lover Jerry Cassaday. This book is a real page turner, a can't put it down type of book. When you get to the last page and realize that all that you have just read is true, you won't believe it. How could this wife, this mother, be so deadly, with out thinking of anyone else but her self? I wonder. Is this real life or the one in a million type of woman?For a close, personal, in-depth look into what the internet has to offer, read this book. I even knew how it ended, and I read the book to fill in some of the blanks, to answer some of the questions that I still had. Thank you Paul and Mark for doing such a great job with such a difficult story. You were kind and caring to the families when they really needed it. WE are glad it's over, and WE finally know most of the truth.

Beyond the catchy "First Internet Murder" headlines and the lurid sexual exploits, there were the victims - two people who were cherished by their families. What remained with me after finishing the book was how well the authors were able to push past the easy sensationalism of the story and create very moving portraits of two men who died because of the actions of one woman.

Mark Morris and Paul Janczewski first introduce us to Jerry Cassaday as his suicide reveals something much more sinister than the obvious problems he was wrestling with. From there, the authors re-create the vivid story of how Jerry's chance meeting on the Internet with Sharee Miller led him to murder her husband.

Morris and Janczewski took voluminous Internet mail correspondence, extensive court records and long interviews with the victims' families and friends, as well as convicted murderer Sharee Miller, to create this fascinating, "can't put it down" story. Throughout, you see Jerry Cassaday and Sharee's murdered husband Bruce as their families saw them. After you've finished reading the book, you will continue to feel how they are missed by those who love them.

This book was excellent, and was the first one I couldn't put down in ages. Matter of fact, I read it twice in a month to catch the little details I missed in my fury to read it the first time!
However, I agree with the writer that said they described Flint incorrectly... I am from near Detroit, and even though we have violence (and LOTS of it), Flint is hideous in some areas, and that one in particular is bad. I wouldn't describe it as even working class.
This has all the elements of a REAL true crime novel... sex, lies, videotapes, and confessions. You will even feel kind of bad for the gunman afterwards.... thrilling and chilling... it is a must read!!!!!

With the use of the internet for nearly everything these days, Fatal Error gives a chilling description of what one woman did to a perfectly innocent man. She told him lies about her, told him she loved him, and wanted to spend forever with him. To this lonely little man, she meant the world to him. He would do whatever it took to keep her..even kill. It brings a sense of reality. I am an online user, and I do chat online sometimes. I was scared to get online for a time after reading this book. It is just that real, and that eeire. But I couldn't ever put it down until I fell asleep.

This is a fantastic book that grabs you from the first page and will not let you put it down. Some true crime stories are slow moving but not Fatal Error, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. This is a must read book and I can only hope that the authors are working on future projects. They are too good for a one time book. I bought this book in a combo with another book
"HE NEVER CALLED AGAIN", which I highly recommend. These two books belong in everyone's bookshelf.

They met in an online chat room. Soon Sharee (that's her evil mug on the cover) had Jerry wrapped around her trash-typing fingers - well enough to get his motor runnin' from KC to Flint, MI to whack her husband, Bruce, for her. The screen name she created for her soon-to-be-late husband and his salvage business, BDJUNK, fits her just fine. And then she discarded Jerry like just another piece of junk.

Reporters from both ends of this internet/interstate fatal triangle have teamed up to write this fast-paced True Crime chronicle, with a lot of help from the friends and relatives of the troubled threesome. Be warned: there is a lot of lurid verbatim porn. Reviewed by TundraVision, Amazon.com Reviewer

I had heard Mark Morris on the (99.7 KY) radio one morning, talking about this book he had co-written, entitled: Fatal Error. I hung on every word he said, and believe me, it's not often I hang on someone's every word!! I had goosebumps, neck hairs standing up and was barely able to swallow -- so captivating was this tale Mark was sharing with the listening audience. After hearing him tell the tale of this bonechilling drama, I was obsessed with reading this book and seeing the photographs of this woman who could drive a man to commit murder, and the poor innocents who were her victims. None of the local libraries had an available copy of the book; the book was on order they said...plus there was a waiting list once it did come in. A waiting list! Woe! I didn't want to wait to read it, I wanted it THAT DAY!
I called numerous bookstores, and finally located a store that had but 3 copies left. I told them to hold a copy for me, I'd be there in an hour to purchase it.
I stayed up that entire night reading the book, not wanting to put it down, not ABLE to put it down. It grabbed me, it held me, it mesmerized me. It absorbed me!! To echo the words of one of our local DJ's, Max Floyd, I can't WAIT to see the movie.
Great job Mark & Paul. You guys have done a terrific job of telling this story of bizarreness, intrigue, passion, and sorrow.

Excellent read. Mark and Paul worked wonders in weaving the web of intrigue that was the true story.

The story vividly reviews how the new mediuum of internet chatting can become a forceful instrument in social intereaction. It also shows how you can adopt virtually any persona you wish when conversing through the electronic medium of chat rooms and Instant Messenger communications.

The development of personalities and families in the book was extraordinary. You literally pictured the characters and their interaction in this shocking real-life murder story.

Good work!

This is a fantastic book that grabs you from the first page and will not let you put it down. Some true crime stories are slow moving but not Fatal Error, it keeps you on the edge of your seat. This is a must read book and I can only hope that the authors are working on future projects. They are too good for a one time book.