Runaway Devil
Books | History / Modern / 21st Century
3.6
Robert Remington
Sherri Zickefoose
Marc and Debra seemed to have it all -- a lovely home in the Prairie town of Medicine Hat, fulfilling careers, a supportive marriage, and two beautiful children: eight-year-old Jacob and twelve-year-old JR. After years of struggle to reach this point, they finally felt their future held promise. But on April 23, 2006, their bodies were discovered in their basement, covered in savage stab wounds. Upstairs, Jacob lay dead on his bed, his toys spattered with blood. Investigators worried for JR's safety, but unknown to them, the pretty honour roll student had been developing a disturbing alter ego online. Runaway Devil professed a fondness for a darker world of death metal music, the goth subculture, and a love for Jeremy Steinke, a twenty-three-year-old high-school dropout who lived in a rundown trailer park. Soon, shocking evidence in JR's school locker -- printed here for the first time -- led police to believe the girl was a suspect in her family's murders. The case horrified parents everywhere. Journalists Robert Remington and Sherri Zickefoose have been covering it from the beginning, and in Runaway Devil, they reveal what really happened: the unlikely young love, the teenage rebellion, a troubling world of adolescent drifters, and a small community torn apart by an unthinkable crime. A modern cautionary tale, Runaway Devil""is also a chilling portrait of an approval-seeking man smitten with a manipulative young girl -- who would stop at nothing to get what she wanted.
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Author
Robert Remington
Pages
270
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Published Date
2009
ISBN
0771073607 9780771073601
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"I hate the way true crime novels seem to give so much useless information in the beginning of the story. Who the **** cares about the history of Medicine Hat? I’M HERE FOR THE 12 YEAR OLD GIRL WHO MURDERED HER ENTIRE ******* FAMILY. But please, tell me more about the oil fields. Yeah, that would be great. Riveting, actually. <br/>Luckily the story progressed quickly enough and it wasn’t long until the murders took place. It was crazy. Never have I heard a 12 year old speak the way she did, and I don’t only mean violently, just that she was so far beyond her years, and not in a good way. When I was 12 I was playing with Bratz dolls. When JR was 12, she was having sex with a 23 year old man and fantasizing about killing her parents. It made for an interesting (and horrifying) read.<br/>I don’t usually like photos in novels, as I find they’re just grainy and ******. The photos in this novel were printed on photo paper and were actually of very high quality, so I did enjoy them and found they added another interesting element to the story. <br/>The end of the novel was equally as boring as the beginning, maybe even worse. Mmmm no, definitely worse. They should really just wrap it the **** up after the trial and the verdict."
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