Who Killed These Girls? by Beverly Lowry

Who Killed These Girls?

by Beverly Lowry

“A true-crime page-turner.... Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder ... and offers a theory on what really happened.” —New York Post

"Gripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood.... Brilliant." —Ann Patchett, award-winning, bestselling author

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 city. 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. The story has grown to include DNA technology, coerced false confessions, and other developments in crime and punishment.

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.

Reviewed by thebookdisciple on

3 of 5 stars

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Overall this was good. There were times I was confused as to why an anecdote was included because it seemed only to confuse the story. Also, the author inserts herself into the story frequently and its clear the story is from her POV which I am not a fan of when it comes to true crime. The story didn't have a very cohesive goal. She basically just sums up what has happened. I would have liked more information about SOME aspect (either the false confessions, the cops methods, the crime, etc). The case has a lot of interesting pieces that could be further examined, and instead of focusing on one of these aspects, the author kind of skims them all.

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