Rating: 
Summary: Save Your Money !
Review: After the media build-up, this book was a big disappointment. It should have been titled "Height Of Incompetency" from the DA down. Nothing but the compilation of all the stories published and hashed over and over again on TV. Seems the author's goal was to get his share of the pot before the public lost interest.
Rating: 
Summary: Best presentation of the facts I've read
Review: This book is the best compilation of the facts that I've read and I've read all of the published books on this murder. Most of the other books are clearly biased either to show that the Ramseys murdered their daughter or to show that they didn't. This book is just the facts but the facts will lead the reader to the only explanation - Either Patsy did it or Patsy knew who did. She definately covered it up.A lot of information was here that I' hadn't seen anywhere else. For example, on the Ramsey last interviews, the detectives got Patsy to become quite hostile and show her true side (the bad temper), for a while she forgot to display her devout Christian/Southern Bell/Beauty Queen image. It's a shame that the public didn't get to see it. We also see how the Ramsey's money and influence has kept justice from being done. An inexperienced police force, a timid and image conscience prosecuter, and the Ramsey's high dollar lawyers all contributed to allowing them to get away with murder.
Rating: 
Summary: Perfect Murder, Perfect Town - Perfect Book!
Review: I highly recommend this book to anyone with *any* interest in the JonBenet Ramsey murder. If you've got any "reasonable doubt" of your own, it's my opinion that this book (by way of the evidence, and interviews presented) will make it quite clear "who dunnit". Unfortunately, the book still leaves at least one nagging question, but through no fault of the author. Only when justice is done, will this story have a satisfactory conclusion. This is the best six bucks and change I've spent in a long time.
Rating: 
Summary: missing motive?
Review: I just read this over Holiday break. I could not put it down, but had to skim the last 200-300 pages. TOO MUCH DETAIL and no classic time/chrono index of who/what/where/when and why. More importantly, Schiller never expounds on a motive. All the time and energy spent on this case; all the time and energy writing this book, and no motive. And what did Schiller write between the lines? Innocent: buried. Innocence: bought.
Rating:
Summary: Perfect Murder, Imperfect Book
Review: Mr. Shilling has given us an exhaustive study of a very complex and intriguing true murder story. His indepth coverage illuminates the case in ways that the press coverage never did. There are parts of this book that should be turned over to all small town police agencies as a text book case of how not to run a homicide investigation. There are also many facts that will lead people, like myself, to discover a very tragic case of murder was botched and the vibrant young victim will never be avenged. I thought these cops actions looked pathetic in the Media, this is even worse! However, I must say that Mr. Shilling has written a book that repeats and circles his subject with almost as tangled a web as the murder clues wove around the police that tried to solve it. The sheer amount of material here is beyond the average comprehension for a case study. I recommend that you keep a notepad beside you to keep track of the events, so as you circle back again, you will have a bread crumb path to lead you through.
Rating: 
Summary: Just a note
Review: One item stands out after reading most of this book: Patsy Ramsey and one of her girl friends were fond of teasing John Ramsey for being from the South. The ransom note admonished John Ramsey to use his "Southern commonsense." The book explains that John was not from the South.
Rating:
Summary: Excellent, but need claification
Review: I thought the book was very well thought out and written in such a way that kept you turning pages, but didn't impose the author's convictions on you. However, I need clarification on the footnote on pages 226-227 re: DNA. Can anyone clarify the last two sentences of the first paragraph: "The more markers that match, the greater the odds are that it is a definitive match. If all thirteen strands in one person's DNA are identical to all the lengths in another person's, the odds are one in trillions that it isn't a match." Shouldn't isn't be IS?
Rating:
Summary: Dull Dull Dull!
Review: I thought that this book would be a little more interesting than it was. All it did was throw out all this evidence that was inconclusive. I didn't even finish this book, and don't even know why I began to read it. Personally, I think that this whole Jon Benet thing is just ridiculous. A little girl got murdered, and yes that was sad, but people get murdered everyday and we forget about them. So why not read a book that serves more of a purpose than this one.
Rating:
Summary: Perfect Murder, Perfect Town is A+
Review: Lawrence clearly explains why the grand jury reached the decision of not indicting anyone. His book is clearly the best on the case. Everyone who is interested in this case should read it.
Rating:
Summary: Political/Personal Agenda + Media = No Justice for JonBenet
Review: Although this book became repetitive - I learned a great deal about the investigation into this horrible crime. As tragic as it is that JonBenet died in this manner - I found it more tragic that the police felt they could solve a murder by just decieding they knew who did it without a thorough investigation. Didn't they learn anything from the OJ Simson trail. The DA should of stayed in Hawaii (where he was when this crime occured) and buried his head in the sand - he would of looked better then how this book portrays him. How could the DA and detectives working on the case embrace a reporter from the "The Globe" with sensitive information. They spent more time fighting through the press, then actually trying to solve this case. As for the Ramsey's - no one will ever know if they did it or not - but they certainly could of made it easier on themselves. I agree with them that the cops were being unfair - but when your daughter is found murdered in your own home you have to do everything in your power to clear your name - or people will always suspect you. Finding her murderer should of out weighed fear of being a suspect! Now, in the public's eye, you will always be a suspect.
| 
