![]() I just did not like her as a person and how she presented herself and others.ģ.5 stars - While a bit overly long, THE MISSING GIRLS is a true crime thriller whose writing chops surpass many in this genre. The research Linda did was interesting to follow. All the dears and hon's, sometimes very inappropriate.Īfter all this critique I'd like to say that I did find this case interesting. And the 'sweetness' oozing from Linda and her conversations with her husband and others. ![]() I have no clue why this was in this book.Īnd the third person writing style, weird okay. This was not the place.Īlso this 'filler' about her mothers illness. What I found very tasteless and disturbing was the part which seemed like a prelude to the sex Linda had with her husband while on the case. I thought she was trying to present herself as a perfect person fighting against the powers that be. I thought the mock presenting of the case to the family was laughable. Like she always wanted to be in the spotlight. She was just one person in the whole machinery.Īs I've gathered from the book there was little contact before the dissappearances and yet Linda was always so emotional during the investigation and always had a wise word to say during all the gatherings. Who knows, maybe Linda sharing her research earlier on, could have prevented Miranda's death.Īll in all, Linda was not that one heroic person who brought a killer to justice, while the police and the FBI were twiddling their thumbs, even though she very much likes us to believe that. Meanwhile the girls dissappeared two months apart from each other, first Ashley Pond, two months later Miranda Gaddis. But meanwhile she also didn't share all she found out, until much later. She keeps saying they screwed the case up. She keeps saying how the FBI and the police didn't even look at the murderer as the person who did it. I thought that was a bit too much to claim such a connection. Linda is the wife of the ex-husband of Ashley Ponds' grandmother. They divorced and this grandmother married another man, having a child with him: Lori Pond. The family connection is this: Linda's husband used to be married to Ashley Ponds' grandmother before this grandmother had children. until a heroic grandmother brought a killer to justice.' The family connection was grossly overstated, as was the fact that Linda brought the killer to justice. No one believed that evil could be so close to home. She keeps going on about the family connection between her family and Ashley Pond and the back of the book even said 'Missing: two young girls from the same neighbourhood. All I've got is a very shallow, stereotypical description of the girls. ![]() This book was more about Linda than it was about the victims. If anyone is looking to learn more about the case, skip this book and read the wiki page, or do what Linda O'Neal did and just read the Oregonian articles from 2002. O'Neal's writing felt fake to me throughout the whole thing. You said that through all your tears for a girl you had met once for 3 seconds in an interview? A third girl is not going to disappear if there's anything in the world that I can do to prevent it." REALLY. In chapter 5, O'Neal writes that she burst into tears when she heard that Miranda Gaddis had gone missing and claimed to have said, "if I had really worked on the Ashley Pond case, I might have prevented this. The story was clunky, with too much attention to details that didn't have to do with the case, extremely forced and unrealistic dialogue, and constant repetition of the same established facts over and over. I feel like all the information given in this book I could have just gleaned from Ashley and Miranda's Wikipedia page, and even most of O'Neal's sources were from Oregonian news articles written long after Weaver's sentencing. It's a good thing that Linda O'Neal didn't give up investigative work to become an author.
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