Days before, seventeen-year-old Jennifer Bailey, her thirteen-year-old brother David, and their friends Paul Henson and Merrilee White had made a gruesome pact: they’d kill their parents, steal their cars and credit cards, and flee to Canada. Paul and Merrilee’s parents thwarted their fates, but Jennifer and David’s mother Susan Bailey wasn’t so lucky. When the devoted mother returned home from work, her two children and their friend Paul took turns stabbing her and slicing her throat. When they were done, they fled in Susan’s car. They made it as far as South Dakota before being arrested. What really led them to make such a despicable pact? The answers would cast a disturbing new light on the way we see the all-American family, our neighbors, our children—and the society that nurtured them.
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"When police arrived at this house of horrors, it was hard to imagine that a teenage girl was the mastermind behind this crime. So scary that these kids were so out of touch with reality that killing their parents was the easiest solution to the problems they thought they had. Lots of research and investigation went into writing this book and it is so scary to think that ones own children would be capable of committing such a horrific crime. "
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Julie (5 out of 5 stars)