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After Etan: The Missing Child Case That Held America Captive (2009)

by Lisa R. Cohen(Favorite Author)

3.84 of 5 Votes: 2

ISBN

0446582514 (ISBN13: 9780446582513)

languge

English

genre

History & Biography

publisher

Grand Central Publishing

review 1: This is a very compelling and well written novel that chronicles the case of missing six-year old Etan Patz (it happened in 1979 so I don't remember the case but it apparently touched many lives). Though at times very disturbing in detail since it does involve a known sex offender and at other times infruating at seeing the justice system fail right before your eyes, it does give a more hopeful and positive message about what this family did to ensure a better system of recovery and how with help from friend John Walsh (America's Most Wanted) they forever changed the way abduction cases are handled.
review 2: The case of Etan Patz, a young boy who leaves home to catch the bus for school in May 1979 and disappears. Forever. Cohen exhaustively unravels every thre... moread of the police/legal investigation into what happened to Etan. There is a grim fascination in this trail and Cohen tells it well. As with all such true crime books one is glad for the end. The author goes into exquisite detail of DA GraBois' attempt to catch pedophile Jose Ramos-presumably the man who abducted and killed Etan- in a confession. This goes on for years. Yet Cohen never questions what the real value of this confession would mean. Would it be believable? Ramos was capable of enormous deception. This legal obsession with extracting confessions shows how legal teams following their noses can go so badly wrong. less

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