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I Let Him Go

Denise Fergus

On February 12th, 1993, Denise's life changed forever. As she was running errands at New Strand Shopping Centre, she let go of her two-year-old son's hand to take out her purse. Denise never saw her son again. In this extraordinary and heart-wrenching book comes the unflinching account of that terri...

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Rotten Mango

It was highly impactful and provided a raw, emotional account of the mother's experience, highlighting her strength and the family's ordeal during the case.

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But if you ever read another book in your life and you love true crime, read I Let Him Go by Denise Fergus. I have never been so affected by a book in my entire life.

— Episode: #80: The 10 Year Old Killers (Case of Ja...

Episode: #80: The 10 Year Old Killers (Case of James Bulger...

It was highly impactful and provided a raw, emotional account of the mother's experience, highlighting her strength and the family's ordeal during the case.

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But if you ever read another book in your life and you love true crime, read I Let Him Go by Denise Fergus. I have never been so affected by a book in my entire life.

It is so real. It is so raw. The emotions are just there.

But this book really gives a raw, vulnerable perspective to what the family goes through when a crime takes place.

Denise is one of the strongest women I've ever read about.

I know it sounds crazy because I don't even know her. But truly, if you have ever been interested in the James Bolger case, which is one of my highly most requested cases, or you're interested in true crime at all, it would be a disservice if you did not read this book.

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