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If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, And The Murder Of Her Children (2014)

by Gregg Olsen(Favorite Author)

3.91 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

1250027144 (ISBN13: 9781250027146)

languge

English

genre

Nonfiction

publisher

St. Martin's Press

review 1: Wow. This is an engrossing book. Fascinating. Though, I'm not crazy about the confusing narrative style, which never sets forth things like times and events and the sequence of events is told in a rather skewed and confusing way, the characters are strongly portrayed in a way that was so forceful, I found myself staring into the eyes of the people on the cover wanting to understand what happened. The bad guy in this story is truly a despicable asshole. This is a great book about a very sad and terrible crime.
review 2: This was an interesting, but also very horrifying story about a marriage gone terribly wrong. Susan Powell disappeared in December 2009, and she nor her body have ever been found up to the present day. Her husband no doubt murdered her, and his... more family, a sick group of individuals except for the oldest daughter Jennifer, probably knew exactly what happened to her. Her husband, Josh Powell, killed himself and his five and seven year old sons, when he learned that custody of the boys was probably going to be taken from him. He hit the two boys on their heads with an ax and then poured gasoline on himself and them, and blew up his home, killing all three of them. The boys were still alive when that happened. Another brother, Mike, who was probably involved in the disposal of Susan's body, committed suicide not too long afterwards. The father of the Powell children is a sick, perverted sex offender, and is no doubt largely to blame for his dysfunctional family. This story actually sickened me; the many details in it are almost too much to take in. I found myself feeling much empathy for Susan's family, the Cox's, and how they to this day have had no closure as to what happened to their daughter. less

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