Welcome to The Official Websleuths Investigative Book Club !

[justice4joe]

These girls were so cruel! They took her life like it was nothing

 

[tricia]

These girls were so cruel! They took her life like it was nothing

@justice4joe Aphrodite Jones really captures the girl's personalities and it is terrifying.

 

[yardgrl60]

I had never heard of this horrible crime until this book club started…all I can say is that in today’s world with social media there would have been eyes on it from the beginning. And I almost think that it would really could have made a case for cyber bullying on the girls part more so than the sad and horrific crime that I really became. It is just unbelievable to me that so many girls were such followers and not one stepped in to stop one thing.

 

[SensibleCrime]

I just watched the Pamela Smith trial from 1991 on TrialTvLive. It is the first trial nationally televised. She was a 22 yo teacher who manipulated teenage boys to kill her husband. It was called having an “affair” with her 15yo student, now we rightly call her a pedo.

I think maybe you mean Pamela Smart and that's an interesting idea. I'm not done with the book but there has to be some manipulation involved. It's weird that someone as damaged as Melinda could manipulate anyone. Laurie was older than all of them. Maybe she did it for fun and not because she was manipulated.