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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
A story of "Jack-The-Ripper" type killers, April 10, 1999
By A Customer
This is the best true crime story I've ever read. I live outside Chicago and remember reading about Robin Gecht and his buddies. It would have been front-page news except it was given short shrift because of the Tylenol killings. Her details about the inner workings of the police department, the personalities of the people working on the case, and the methodical explanation of the evidence, are fascinating. She makes you care about the victims and their families but doesn't subject the reader to any psychobabble. She doesn't justifying the killers' actions because of their childhoods. I read this book non-stop, didn't put it down until I was done. This is an excellent first book, I hope she writes many, many more. Five stars aren't enough.
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful:
3.0 out of 5 stars
Entertaining read, but lacking in depth, June 25, 2000
I found the book hard to put down -- in fact, I read it straight through in a matter of hours. I was greatly entertained, but found myself hungry for more details. This series of crimes, in my opinion, is unparalleled in regards to cruelty and gruesomeness, with the possible exception of Jeffrey Dahmer's murders. But I was left with many unanswered questions. The book's 316 pages of large type was just not enough to delve into even ONE of these crimes in any real depth, much less all of them, and the trials were skimmed over even faster. All in all, I recommend the book for its entertainment value, but I would think most true crime fans will be left unsatisfied.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
I Never Had A Clue, July 6, 2001
I knew, or at least thought I knew Andy Kokoraleis. He had been a neighbor of mine at the time of his arrest. I had spent many evenings relaxing and having a few cold beers after a hard day at work with a couple of my neighbors including Andy. When I arrived home in Villa Park from work one November afternoon in 1982, several of my neighbors ran up to my car. They asked me if I had heared about Andy, and explained that the Police had been there and arrested him earlier that day. I thought they were kidding until I watched the 6:00 news, saw his full screen picture and learned that he had signed a detailed confession to the torture and murder of as many as 18 women. A short time later, a job offer took me and my family to another part of the country and I never followed or knew what the outcome of the trial was until March 15th of 1999 when I was watching Chicago's WGN News and learned of his scheduled execution. I gathered as much newspaper coverage as I could find and learned of this book by Jaye Slade Fletcher. Two days later on St. Patrick's Day, Andy was indeed put to death by lethal injection. I had doubts about his guilt until I learned that in his final words, he appologised for the pain he had caused his victims and their families. When I purchased and read the book "Deadly Thrills", I was horrified by the unspeakable cruelty of these four evil men. I remember Andy introducing me to his brother Tommy and his friend Eddie Spreitzer, but I don't recall ever meeting Robin Gecht. I can't comprehend how four people this twisted can actually find each other. It,s not like you can just run an ad in the classifieds of your local paper that reads "Help Wanted, Sick twisted sadistic killer in need of three helpers to torture and slaughter the worlds female population. This book told the story of the unspeakable acts commited by these men in some vivid detail, but the picture that will always haunt me is that of Andy Kokoraleis in my house holding my nine month old son in his hands, knowing what else those hands had done. The thing that scares me is, I never had a clue.
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