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Summary: too much to expect
Review: I didn't think this book was very good. I think too much guessing went on and the book didn't focus on JonBenet's murder at all. He is saying that a Ramsey sexually abused the child and that is why she died. I would not reccommend this book!
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Summary: A ransom note is worth a thousand words
Review: I had mixed feelings about this book, but I'm glad I read it. I will say right out, as someone with a Master's degree in Psychology, that I even thought a lot of it sounded far-fetched. It sometimes sounded like the author was forcing a fit between the note and Patsy's profile and it was a little overboard.However, I definitely believe a lot of what he wrote. I especially noticed how much Patsy loved the word 'delivery'. The ransom note used it many times, it was also used in her Christmas letters "JonBenet is so outgoing she won't have trouble delivering an oral presentation in school" and many times in her own book when other words were more appropriate. The author is definitely on to something. A person can only maintain a facade for so long before something squishes out in some way or another. But, I can't bring myself to believe that John Ramsey molested his daughter. I just don't think he did. Also, the author says that Patsy and John will only be able to maintain this image for so long before they will finally crack. The author says this with certainty. Well, the book was written in 1998 and we're almost into 2004. Six years later and they still haven't confessed and I don't think they ever will.
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Summary: too much to expect
Review: I have to wonder what the author of this book, as well as the author's of these reviews, would say about the recently disclosed FACT that DNA found in JonBenet's body does NOT match the Ramsey's. The DNA is in the form of SEMEN. Now unless any one of you can prove that Patsy Ramsey magically makes semen then you may have a leg to stand on here by accusing this woman of murdering her own daughter. It's absolutely ridiculous to me. And the author of this book, while playing slight of hand, much like a magic trick, knows nothing of the actual facts and evidence of the case. It is always disturbing and sad to me when I see so many of my fellow citizens all too eager to point the finger of blame at people so easily, without the facts, simply based on hocus pocus, half baked psycho babble. How scary is this that people like this sit on juries when accused's lives are on the line?! UNBELIEVABLE.
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Summary: Paints the most credible scenario of what happened.
Review: I KNEW that Patsy did it the instant the news was broadcast. Having done extensive studies of psychopaths ... I recognized the profile. But what was problematical for me was the support of John Ramsey, whom I also felt had molested JonBenet. So, how did that fit into the picture? Hodges put it all together. I don't know if it is really because his method of analyzing speech and writing is the key, of if he is just a darn good psychiatrist and he simply uses that as a method to focus his thoughts. Whichever is true, after reading every other book on the subject, I have to give him kudos for making all the pieces of the puzzle finally fit.
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Summary: A fascinating read
Review: It was an amazing experience to journey with Dr. Hodges on a word-by-word analysis of the ransom note left by JonBenet's killer. At first I thought that Hodges had outlined too tall an order for himself in proposing to find the killer's 'fingerprint' in her written words, but I soon found that notion to be incorrect. After a short while I found myself using Hodges' method to make my own analysis of the note, jumping ahead of him and the book's pace. I now have new insight into understanding all other forms of written communication with this hidden message/meta-message theory in mind. As an author myself, I am quite impressed with this book. My daughter, who loves the true crime genre, also was thrilled to find the clues that are obvious, once you have the eyes to see them. Now I'm even MORE amazed that the Colorado police have yet to indict a suspect. I am hands-down convinced that Patsy should be indicted and brought to trial. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Mining the gold in a sick killer's note
Review: It was an amazing experience to journey with Dr. Hodges on a word-by-word analysis of the ransom note left by JonBenet's killer. At first I thought that Hodges had outlined too tall an order for himself in proposing to find the killer's 'fingerprint' in her written words, but I soon found that notion to be incorrect. After a short while I found myself using Hodges' method to make my own analysis of the note, jumping ahead of him and the book's pace. I now have new insight into understanding all other forms of written communication with this hidden message/meta-message theory in mind. As an author myself, I am quite impressed with this book. My daughter, who loves the true crime genre, also was thrilled to find the clues that are obvious, once you have the eyes to see them. Now I'm even MORE amazed that the Colorado police have yet to indict a suspect. I am hands-down convinced that Patsy should be indicted and brought to trial. Highly recommended!
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Summary: Sherlock Holmes meets Sigmund Freud, again.
Review: This book is fascinating for the general reader, for forensic experts and for psychologists like me. Dr. Hodges has demonstrated the wisdom that Freud found in his "Psychopathology of Everyday Life", that we cannot keep secrets, our unconscious mind speaks volumes. This finds a new application in the work that Dr. Hodges has produced. Importantly, this work will eventually be subject to a real world test. When the killer(s) of JonBenet Ramsey is(are)finally brought to justice, Dr. Hodges conclusions will be tested. The result will benefit both forensic investigation and psychoanalysis. Stay tuned for the final chapter.
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Summary: I think Hodges is right about the how/why/who of this murder
Review: This version of the JonBenet case was simpler and more readable to me than "Who Will Speak for Jon Benet?" by the same author. I found it all readable and believable. I agree with other reviewers who found Hodges' conclusions "right on" ... He convinced me! A sentence on Page 180 of the paperback edition summed up the whole case to me and explains why no arrests have been made and probably never will be. It took two to tango.
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Summary: A Family Member Killed JonBenet
Review: You don't have to be a shrink with a PHD to come to the logical and common sense conclusion that someone in the house that night killed JonBenet; either the brother, mother, or father. I agree with the author that it's probably mom who done it. Maybe mommy got angry at JonBenet and hit her in the head, fracturing her skull; then staged the death to look like a kidnapping by an outsider. I don't think the father was molesting his daughter, just covering up the crime by his wife.
A kidnapper doesn't spend time writing a looong ransom note inside the house, ask for only $118,000 from a millionaire's family, etc. unless their IQ level is in the malignant dumb range.
The Ramsey's "lawyered up" asap which ain't what innocent parent's do when their daughter is murdered. They didn't cooperate with police or the FBI (i.e. take an independent lie detector test). They also blamed everyone but themselves for the death (i.e. Santa, friends). I will not read their book, even free from a library.
The author is dreaming if he thunks that the Ramsey's will ever confess to the murder. Patsy is another OJ who has wiped murder from their brain or has justified it (cheating ex-wife, spoiled daughter who got Patsy mad at her) in their mind.
This was the perfect murder because the police screwed up the crime scene from the git-go, and rich people are different than you and me, they have more moola to spend on dream team lawyers.
Even hard DNA evidence didn't get OJ convicted of murder!
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