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    The Want-Ad Killer
    The Want-Ad Killer
    The Want-Ad Killer
    Audiobook7 hours

    The Want-Ad Killer

    Written by Ann Rule

    Narrated by Paul Boehmer

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    About this audiobook

    After his first grisly crime, Harvey Louis Carignan beat a death sentence and continued to manipulate, rape, and bludgeon women to death-using want ads to lure his young female victims. And time after time, justice was thwarted by a killer whose twisted legal genius was matched only by his sick savagery. Here, complete with the testimony of women who suffered his unspeakable sexual abuses and barely escaped with their lives, and of the police who at last put him behind bars, is one of the most shattering and thought-provoking true-crime stories of our time.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherTantor Media, Inc
    Release dateAug 9, 2016
    ISBN9781515980162
    The Want-Ad Killer
    Author

    Ann Rule

    Ann Rule wrote thirty-five New York Times bestsellers, all of them still in print. Her first bestseller was The Stranger Beside Me, about her personal relationship with infamous serial killer Ted Bundy. A former Seattle police officer, she used her firsthand expertise in all her books. For more than three decades, she was a powerful advocate for victims of violent crime. She lived near Seattle and died in 2015.

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    • 3/5
      I love Ann Rule!! But I couldn’t get past the (what I assume) was a computer program reading of the book. Something was just off— like a robot reading and trying to sound like a person. Nope!

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    • 4/5
      I shouldn't be fascinated by true crime, but I am, and this book definitely fit into that interest. Rule is extensive in her research and tells the story of Harvey and his victims very well. Definitely worth a read.
    • 5/5
      So many emotions and I have no idea how to label this serial killer. It's a must read but not intended for teens or younger in my opinion. Too much vulgar and sexual explicit content for that age range.
    • 5/5
      It’s hard to believe monsters like this walk the earth. The story is true and is of local interest.. I binged the audiobook. I first heard about this character in a true crime episode that didn’t do justice to the horror of this story.
    • 4/5
      Good work for a book published in 1983. There was, at the time, a propensity for authors to embellish situations where there is no concrete evidence. Such as, putting words in the mouth of a deceased person to make the story flow better. But Ann was one of the better true crime authors at the time. Dude is 93 & still in prison.
    • 3/5
      Overall not as good as some of Ann Rule's books but the first half or three quarters were great, and the narrator was great throughout (audiobook). The last few chapters on "was he or wasn't he" insane got a little overbearing, and could have been summed up a little quicker instead of questioning each little thing that the killer said, but as an expose I guess all that questioning of each sentence was needed. It just didn't translate into a great audiobook. Still, the author is great at delivering true crime books and 3/4 of the book was superb. Overall, recommend for true crime lovers.
    • 4/5
      An interesting read. The story is well-balanced with personal facts about the killer and the victims and makes the problems with the justice system clear without being preachy.
    • 4/5
      Ann Rule is very fair to both victim and villian in her writing. This story focuses around a young, innocent girl, Kathy Miller, and her mother's premonition of her fate. The result is heartbreaking and suspenseful.