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Generation Why: True Crime
The book was described as a memoir where the Hadia case is a thread throughout; although the author believes Hadia was murdered, some people did not like the direction the story took, and the Hadia family were not fans.
It's one of those books that if you go into it, and I've read much of it, but if you go into it thinking, I'm going to learn all about Dr. Stephen Hadia's death and the investigation and theories, you...
— Episode: Dr. Steven Haataja - 410
Episode: Dr. Steven Haataja - 410
The book was described as a memoir where the Hadia case is a thread throughout; although the author believes Hadia was murdered, some people did not like the direction the story took, and the Hadia family were not fans.
It's one of those books that if you go into it, and I've read much of it, but if you go into it thinking, I'm going to learn all about Dr. Stephen Hadia's death and the investigation and theories, you're going to be disappointed.
But this author has his stamp all over it. It's really more of a memoir of his own, where the Hadia case is kind of like a thread that goes throughout it.
But Ballantyne believes that Stephen had been murdered, and he said, 'The local police department was under fire for a lackadaisical missing persons investigation. By voicing the opinion that Stephen's death was a suicide, they perhaps thought their low scores and the possibility of a kill in our midst might go away.'