The Devil at Genesee Junction: The Murders of Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formicola, 6/66
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| Rating | : | 4.73 (507 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1442252332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 398 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-04-16 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Loved the story not impressed with the writing For the author to tell this factual story for an event and follow up he lived through was excellent. I can only imagine what "the Fear" did to him at nine. I have not read any of his other books. I felt the way he presented his investigation was disjointed and hard to follow. I am appreciative for the insight into local history and the victims.. Not worth the money Marcia An interesting story but loaded with unnecessary filler. I found myself getting bored with all the trips down memory lane. The digressions are annoying and the author's style hackneyed.. Two Stars Linda O'Connor 3/4 through the book & I feel like it's dragging. I'm reading the same stuff over & over.
(Patrick A. (Robert Mladinich, author of From the Mouth of the Monster: The Joel Rifkin Story; co-author of Lethal Embrace and Hooked Up For Murder)Michael Benson has written an unusual combination of memoir and true crime that is as affecting as it is compelling. (Fred Rosen, author of Lobster Boy) . Since childhood, veteran true crime author Benson (Killer Twins) has been obsessed with the unsolved 1966 murders of two teenage girls in his hometown of Chili, N.Y., a tight-knit community forever marred by that brutal violence. Nearly fifty years later he describes the murders, the multitude of suspects developed and a commu
Michael Benson is originally from the town of Chili, New York and attended Wheatland-Chili High School. He has a journalism degree from Hofstra University, and is the author of many true-crime books, including Murder in Connecticut, The Burn Farm, and Killer Twins. He has appeared on the CBS Morning News, On the Case
He went from living in a rural playland, to being encased in fear, wondering who among them was the werewolf who cut up Kathy and George-Ann. And while June 25 started like any other day it would end in a nightmare. This heinous crime was never resolved, and didn’t go away. The double homicide changed the author’s childhood suddenly, and drastically. Today you’d call Ballantyne suburban, but back then, at the start of the summer of 1966, it was country — just a cluster of houses, some of them shacks, on or near Ballantyne Road, in the Town of Chili, NY. In The Devil at Genesee Junction, veteran crime writer, Michael Benson, returns to his formerly rural hometown to take on the double homicide of his friends Kathy Bernhard and George-Ann Formiciola that took place that night. Together they have heated up this icy cold case, and their investigation has led them in a startling new direction.. The two girls were missing for a month and then found in the bushes horribly mutilated. In recent years, the author has teamed up with a victim’s mom, and a local private investigator to delve deep into the 6/66 murders, developing along the way some strong new leads and shocking details