Who Killed These Girls? by Beverly Lowry

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Who Killed These Girls?

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Author: Beverly Lowry
ISBN: 9781524708740

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Published on Oct 11, 2016 | 15 Hours 13 Minutes

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From the author of Crossed Over, another masterful account of a horrible crime: the murder of four girls, countless other ruined lives, and the evolving complications of the justice system that frustrated the massive attempts–for twenty-five years now–to find and punish those who committed it.

The facts are brutally straightforward. On December 6, 1991, the naked, bound-and-gagged bodies of the four girls–each one shot in the head–were found in an I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop in Austin, Texas. Grief, shock, and horror spread out from their families and friends to overtake the city itself. Though all branches of law enforcement were brought to bear, the investigation was often misdirected and after eight years only two men (then teenagers) were tried; moreover, their subsequent convictions were eventually overturned, and Austin PD detectives are still working on what is now a very cold case. Over the decades, the story has grown to include DNA technology, false confessions, and other developments facing crime and punishment in contemporary life. But this story belongs to the scores of people involved, and from them Lowry has fashioned a riveting saga that reads like a Russian novel, comprehensive and thoroughly engrossing.

“Gripping, moving, and as good as any depiction of a murder case since In Cold Blood. . . . This transcends the genre. Brilliant.” —Ann Patchett

“A true-crime page-turner. . . . Lowry exhausts every possible scenario behind the shocking, unsolved quadruple murder . . . and offers a theory on what really happened.” —New York Post

“Deeply compassionate . . . An agonizing portrait. . . . We’re fortunate to have [Lowry] as our investigator, our cultural historian, our mourner.” —Austin Chronicle

“Heartfelt. . . . Chillingly concise. . . . Lowry works the case from a human rather than a forensic angle.”—The New York Times Book Review

“A page turner. . . . A very real reminder that horror isn’t just a fictional genre. . . . Lowry lets no detail escape her literary light. . . .These murders shook a city and are sure to haunt you long after you set the book aside.” —Bust

“A story of pain and loss, and how one heinous act that takes four lives … destroys so many others. . . . In its swift pacing, intimate peeks into the characters’ lives, and deep research and reportage, Who Killed These Girls? features everything we wish for in a book about an event we wish had never happened.” —Los Angeles Review of Books

“Gripping . . . well-researched and thought provoking. . . . A terror-filled thrill ride which is captivating from start to finish.” —New York Journal of Books

“Beverly Lowry is rapidly becoming the Zola of Central Texas. Her character studies only get better.” —Larry McMurtry

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Beverly Lowry

BEVERLY LOWRY was born in Memphis and grew up in Greenville, Mississippi. The author of six novels and four previous works of nonfiction, her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Mississippi Review, Granta, and many other publications. She has received awards from the National Endowment for the Arts, the Guggenheim Foundation, the Texas Institute of Letters, and the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters. She lives in Austin, Texas.

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