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There's three really good books on this. OK, hear me out. Hear me out. OK, so the first one is Name Dropper by Frank Girardo. Really good.

Blood Will Out, the true story of a murder, a mystery and a masquerade by Walter Kim. This is more of a memoir versus a deep dive on this case. He was actually close friends with Clark Rockefeller.

And then is there only is that the only family with that last name? I'm assuming that there's other people with that surname. But I mean, it's really got to be just them. Right.

And then the really good deep dive is The Man in the Rockefeller Suit. Really good by Mark Seal. He actually I remember reading a Vanity Fair article that was written by Mark Seal. And I was like, OK, well, this is it got me hooked on this case. Right.

I mean, probably the most out of the three. This is like your purest deep dive. I mean, the other ones are kind of, you know, he did almost 200 interviews with people, went all across the United States and even went to Germany.

She has been a journalist for over 20 years, specializes in crime. And I mean, even her writing this book took five years and it's the wildest story. I mean, she traveled everywhere, talked to witnesses, really put so much detail into this book. It's insane.

The amount of detail in this book is insane. If I were to tell you every single detail, we would be here until 2022. It's gnarly. She also does a lot of in-depth psychological analysis of the killers, which I found fascinating.

Killing For Pleasure goes in depth on like why this is, you know, I mean, these are all people that are on welfare. The system really didn't care about them. They just threw them in like a bad part of town. It was like, OK, you stay here and figure it out.

Killing For Pleasure, describes Robert as being and I quote, a nasty piece of work permanently sour in the face like he's been pickled in vinegar.

Killing For Pleasure goes in depth about this. But I mean, they don't know. Did they tear it out of the scalp like the way that they took out Suzanne's hair is just bizarre.

The second book is called Snowtown. The Bodies in the Barrel Murders by Jeremy Pudney. Really good. I mean, he's like a top notch storyteller. I don't know what else to say other than I really couldn't just put it down.

There's a book that I'm obsessed that's on this case and it's called Death Sentence by Mr. Joe Sharkey.

He is so good. He's one of those authors where every time you read a book of his, you're just trying to scan for the next one.

Like, hello, when are you releasing another one, sir? I don't mean to be annoying or antsy, but like, come on, you need to feed us more words.

But really, it is the best deep dive on this case gives you so it almost transports you into that 19 room Victorian mansion and you feel everything.

He also did a ton of interviews.

So the book that I think that most of these crime drama series is being based off of or being adapted from is a book called Evidence of Love by John Bloom and Jim Atkinson.

There is so much meticulous detail in this book. I can't even, I mean, this is, I love nonfiction crime books that read like a thriller, but this one kind of reads like a movie. Like I pictured everything in my head that as it was happening. I mean, they're really good at what they do.

This is going to go nowhere near as deep as that book. Trust me, pick up that book because there's going to be a lot of shows on this.

So I mean, I'm going to be watching both series. I just like reading the books first if there's like a well-known book that they're adapted from. So the book is almost always better.

Just read the book first because once you watch the show, you don't really want to read the book. But trust me, the experience hits different.

OK, so the first book is called Every Mother's Nightmare by Mark Thomas. He had interviews with police detectives, family members. I mean, it's just a really meticulously researched, thorough book. Gives you the full ins and outs of the trial.

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.

There is a book called "A Beautiful Child" and another one called "Finding Sharon" written by the same author, Matt Birkbeck.

Later, he self publishes a book. It's called By the Truth, Do Not Sell It, which is ironic because if he's telling his truth in the book, then he is selling it.

I thought I knew this case but then I read this book. One of the best deep dives I've read in a while - you'll be engaged the whole time

The amount of research that went into this book, he had the full cooperation of the Sharer family. So you just get every detail of practically everybody involved.

I have never read a book that was so in depth on each player.

But it's really good if you want to get like the full picture of everything. I highly recommend giving it a read.

Really good. He had the full cooperation of the Cher family. A lot of interviews done with the murderers, the Cher family, just a really deep dive into Shonda's life and how everything unfolded and a lot of the letters are in there.

But the second one is called Little Lost Angel by Michael Quinlan. The first one is Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones.

And I think the most popular book is Cruel Sacrifice by Aphrodite Jones. That one was good, too.

This book is amazing.

It's about um well I can't read you the title but it's just called Above Suspicion.

It's so good.

I'm gonna link it in my source notes.

There is a book called The Collector by John Fells.

If you guys listen to Bacon a Mystery or Bacon a Murder, I did The Butterfly Collector.

Which I think is like a fan fiction of the original book, The Collector.

It's a lonely young man who collects butterflies in his free time. And his obsession is a woman by the name of Miranda.

So he starts admiring her. And when I say admiring her, I'm saying he starts stalking her.

it's called like love's blood and it's about a woman who loves blood it's a 600 page book that's really good it's good but if you're going to read it take it with a grain of salt because it does seem like the author has some sort of love for Patricia Colombo

it is speculated that during these meetings that maybe he possibly even fell in love with Patricia Colombo because it is done in a way where you feel a lot of sympathy towards Patricia and a lot more than you should

There's a book about Stephen, a series about him called 'I Know My First Name Is Stephen'.

So the author of the book, 'I Know My First Name Is Steven' approached Ken, found him after he got out of jail and told him, you know, what about the sexual assault charges?

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This weekend I picked up a book called I'm No Monster by Stephanie Marsh and Bojan Penchevsky.

And I got hooked on this because there is this new movie that just came out 2021 called The Girl in the Basement.

Most of the source for this podcast is brought to you by Black Widow the true story of the giggling granny Nanny Dos. It's a book by Ryan Green it's a really good one I had a really great time reading it so let's just jump right in

I read this book that it's in my source notes, but they list they left all the text messages in there.

This one is by Paul Williams. It's called Almost the Perfect Murder.

They left all of the text messages in.

And it's it's like so depressing to read these text messages.

And I didn't know if I was going to read them in the podcast because it also felt weird reading someone's text messages, especially with the BDSM involved.