Today’s Nonfiction post is on Death on the Devil's Teeth:
The Strange Murder That Shocked Suburban New Jersey by Jesse P. Pollack and
Mark Moran. It is 211 pages long and is published by The History Press. The
cover has a picture of the murder victim Jeanette DePamla and where she was
found. The intended reader is someone who is interested in true crime, weird
stories, and weird New Jersey. There is some foul language, no sex, and violence
in this book. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- As Springfield residents
decorated for Halloween in September 1972, the crime rate in the quiet,
affluent township was at its lowest in years. That mood was shattered when the
body of sixteen-year-old Jeannette DePalma was discovered in the local woods,
allegedly surrounded by strange objects. Some feared witchcraft was to blame,
while others believed a serial killer was on the loose. Rumors of a police
coverup ran rampant, and the case went unsolved--along with the murders of
several other young women. Now, four decades after Jeannette DePalma's tragic
death, authors Jesse P. Pollack and Mark Moran present the definitive account
of this shocking cold case.
Review- An interesting story that goes nowhere in the end
because of many reasons. The authors write a magazine called Weird New Jersey and they love the weird
stories that their state in abundance. So they come to this story with great
love and interest in the weird. The story itself is very weird with Jeannette
being missing for a few weeks then she is found and has been dead for most of
that time and the death is strange. The body was found in an odd place and was surrounded by stones placed around the body in some kind of pattern. But that not the only strange things about the murder, her family was strange, and then more strange
things happen, like more murders and no ideas about how they happened. The
story ends up feeling very disjointed as we move from strange and creepy murder to another
creepy and strange event. The writing is good with a lots of details into the
crimes, the families, and the theories but not much on resolution. That maybe
because there is not real resolution to the main case, the killer is still
unknown and the murder still haunts the community.
I give this book a Three out of Five stars. I get nothing for
my review and I borrowed this book from my local library.
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