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Summary: The book was very well organized.
Review: At the recomendation of Sue Dietrich, the detective responsible for the investigation and a college professor of mine, I read the book and found it to be one of the best true crime books I have ever picked up. It was hard to put down, and great to learn from.
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Summary: Read it in one night!!
Review: I found this story one I could not put down until I finished it. I was saddened by the story but glad the truth came out. Hooray to these women for pursuing thier gut feelings and may carlton stowers and others keep the true crime storys coming. We need to be informed educated so we can be more able to protect the children!!
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Summary: Must-read...you'll be disgusted and jubilant
Review: I just moved to Alvin and read this book because it involved my new town. I was shocked and disgusted that someone almost got away with murder due to the ineptitude of the Harris County Medical Examiner and the nonchalance of the first Alvin investigator assigned to the case. Only because Sue Dietrich, who lost a child of her own, took on this case was justice served. This book has an added bonus of an extremely satisfying postscript.
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Summary: Poor Little Renee
Review: She had a sad sap moron for a mother, and a cold-blooded killer for a father. Luckily she had a granny with some brains who fought for justice for her.
It's impossible to have any sympathy for Annette, her mother, who stayed with this man, even though she knew he killed her cat, and had no qualms about getting pregnant by him a second time (the first time he "made" her have an abortion at 5 - 6 months), even though she could not support herself and the child she already had by her first husband and had to keep moving back in with mommy. Both she and Shane moved so many times: back together, apart, condos, apartments, rent houses, back with their respective parents - I could not keep up with all the moving. They were quite obviously immature and both expecting someone to come along and solve their problems for them.
Even though Annette told Detective Duckworth her suspicions at the scene, he claimed she didn't, and that he "knew nothing". So basically he did nothing, and luckily was reassigned to Narcotics. He couldn't even find out that Goode had taken out $50,000 life insurance policy on his kids - as far as he was concerned, this guy would have gotten away with murder, no skin off his nose, as long as didn't have to do any actual work. This book does not make the Houston and Alvin Police Depts look very good, but what is, is. They didn't do their jobs, the ME's didn't want to do their jobs, the wife-cheater DA didn't want to do his job either - luckily he resigned too! The only ones who wanted to work and cared about justice were the female Asst DA, the woman detective, and the grandma turned private investigator. She may have raised two kooky kids, but she got it together and took care of things for Renee - she paid for her funeral, tissue testing the city refused to pay for needed for evidence, and took copious notes. Thank goodness for them, or this guy would probably have murdered another of his kids.
This is an interesting story, but not well-written or organized. It may be necessary to tell, but there seemed to be too much about all the authorities infighting and personal problems. There was basically zilch about Shane Goode's childhood or background. So no explanation of his psychological state or what happened in his life to lead him to this point.
It could have been better.
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Summary: get it out of the library
Review: Such a tragic story! Such a mediocre report of that story. Stowers plods through this book without much style or verve. Imagine the horror of a father murdering his own child for the insurance money (I'm not giving anything away, it tells you that on the book cover). I'm sure your imagination can probably render a far more touching picture than this book evokes.I think I got a clue as to what was in store when I leafed through the "shocking photos" bound into the middle of the volume. Eek! Wedding pictures! Oh, horror! Posed photos of district attorneys and lady police officers! Gasp! Candid shots of villain Shane Goode and his lawyer! While this book is not a total snore, it sure isn't all it's hyped up to be, either. In short, with so many books and so little time, I'd recommend you look elsewhere for excitement. Like the Halloween aisle at your local Wal-Mart.
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Summary: Renee, I will never forget you--
Review: thanks to this spellbinding book by Mr. Stowers; I am a prolific reader of true crime and while I am reading a book I am engrossed in it but the story fades quickly; not so with this book. There are so many aspects to the story: the shoddy, so- called investigation by the police; the shoddy examination by the medical examiner resulting in an "undetermined cause of death",the realization that if the family had not been persistent, this child's murder would have been "cold filed"; What is heartening is the degree of involvement of Sue Dietrich the Detective who asked to get involved in this case and the attorney who tried the case Jeri Yenne; their passion to bring the killer to justice was surprising and Mr. Stowers reveals their compassion for this child. Most of all, Mr. Stowers writing style evoked an immense amount of sympathy for this poor unfortuante and innocent child. I kept looking at her face and then went back to reading the book; while the death of a child is always horrific, you don't always feel as though the child in the book if personalized as was the case with this book; I felt as though I could see Renee and hear her laugh and play; in fact,there were times I had to put the book down because it was painful to read; Thank goodness for Sharon, Renee's grandmother, who was intelligent and feisty and would not allow this crime to be swept under the rug; It was the passion of the the detective and the attorney who tried the case that won this case for Renee; I will never forget you, Renee.
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Summary: Shocking story, good book
Review: This was a very good book about a very touchy story. Left some things unanswered, but good nevertheless.
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Summary: Shocking story, good book
Review: This was a very good book about a very touchy story. Left some things unanswered, but good nevertheless.
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Summary: Must-read...you'll be disgusted and jubilant
Review: This was one of the saddest true stories I have ever read, and I have read quite a few of them. My heart and prayers go out to little Renee Goode and to her mother and grandmother and the other courageous women who fought so hard to bring her killer to justice! I hug my twenty month old granddaughter daily and thank God for her. God bless Renee!
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