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The dark double life of Ellen Boehm, the mother who murdered her two sons - and nearly killed her daughter
Ellen Boehm, a single mom from St. Louis, Missouri, appeared devoted to her children. But in reality, she was unequipped for motherhood, financially strapped, and desperate. Within a year of each other, her sons, ages two and four, died mysteriously, and Boehm's eight-year-old daughter then suffered a near-fatal mishap when a hair dryer fell into the girl's bath. While neighbors wondered how Boehm remained so calm through it all, Det. Sgt. Joseph Burgoon of St. Louis Homicide had darker suspicions.
Burgoon soon unraveled a labyrinth of deception, greed, and obsession that revealed a cold-blooded killer whose get-rich-quick scheme came at the cost of her children's lives. Boehm had taken out insurance policies on her children with six different companies totaling nearly $100,000. Using police reports, case documents, and photos, journalist John Coston recreates the events that led to one mother's unspeakable acts of filicide - and a cop's relentless pursuit of the truth.
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- Shanonymous
- 08-15-20
Can I Give Minus Stars?
Not sure what's worse....the narrator or the book itself. There was ZERO emotion. He didn't even read the chapter titles to - at the very least - break up the monotony.
The book was all over the place. If you've ever done any illegal drug to excess and tried to have a conversation.... yeah, that's how it rambles. There's no chronology, no.... anything.
The ONLY part of this book that was even remotely acceptable was the very beginning about Stacy and the hairdryer.
After that.... good luck following the story. This narrator should be banned from reading audiobooks. I deserve my money back, a free credit, and a free toaster for painfully making it through the first 6 chapters (which I didn't realize were even chapters because mono-narrator didn't stop to tell the names until I stopped the book - then went to look to see how far in I'd survived); these chapters actually have titles!
Listening to this was akin to eating food you really hate at a restaurant that you would otherwise normally like, and finding larvae in your undercooked dish. When you complain, the manager not only doesn't give you a refund, but steals your wallet, locks you out, taunts you through the window, plants narcotics in your wallet without you seeing, returns it, then calls the police on you when you're driving away. Getting yourself out of that might be a little less painful than reading this.
In fact, I would've stopped at least 3 chapters sooner, but my phone was just out of my reach, and my dog was super comfortable lying on my legs and I didn't want to disturb her.
Go read War & Peace in Gaelic and see if that makes more sense. Instead of "Sleep, My Child, Forever," John Coston should've called this "Burn, My Book, Forever."
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- Florida Man
- 08-28-20
Interesting story which needed more editing
I didn't buy this. It was in a free section. So I have zero cause for complaint. I did finish it but I'm glad I didn't pay for it. The story of Ellen and what she did was interesting but it went on and on and repeated things throughout. It probably mentions her weight about 40 times throughout, and even exacting weight of her friend. It was almost weird. Like yes, we get it, she was unattractive and wanted to live in a fantasy about being desired. It wasn't just this, but that's an example of the repetitive nature of this book.
The other thing which dragged it down was narration. The narrator read with no tone or inflection in many parts of the book. He was robotic, sounding like GPS directions.
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- Linda M. Braubitz
- 02-09-21
Fat shaming
Listening to this book made me cringe. Why the focus on the weight and fat shaming? This woman was horrid, that was her shame, not her weight. “321 pounds to be exact”. At first I thought there was some sort of connection between her weight, that number and the story. But the more I listened, I realized it was the author’s bias, nothing else. I don’t think I will be listening to anything by John Coston again. Geez.
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- Thom Pierson
- 07-25-19
Tragic lost of lives
Another case in which untreated child abuse breeds more child abuse and in this case leads to murder.
Great book.
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- Liz Grimes
- 03-05-20
Not there
Did not like the story teller made it very hard to follow. I believe may have been better if different person
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- Makayla
- 08-31-20
Great Book, Tragic Story
I had never heard of this case... but oh my gosh. I finished this book in two days, and for me.. that's saying something. I would definitely recommend.
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- Marsha L. Woerner
- 06-19-20
How sad!
(As posted in GoodReads)
What a sad situation! I would love to say that Ellen was a monster, but that sounds the situation up far too tidily and simplistically! She probably was, but her overall childhood and upbringing are doubtless a part of her character and actions later in life. The book was good as far as it went, but that background and upbringing deserved a more formal investigation for the reader to get an overall view of the troubled woman.
This is not to say that a horrible childhood and early circumstance excuse later actions, but a little more background in those areas would have been helpful. I weep for Ellen and Stacy both! I don't weep for the boys, because there's no point: they're dead :-(
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- Tonia H.
- 06-01-21
riveting!
I loved it! it was engrossing. I didn't want to pause it. chilling. the story? well written. the narrator? enunciated and well paced. highly recommend.
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- R. Brooks
- 06-02-21
In my neck of the woods
I loved everything about thos bood or audio book.
I live on the out skirts of St. Louis so knowing all the streets names or locations made this story that much more appealing.
Loved the story!
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- Jennifer Hing
- 05-27-21
Incredibly interesting
What an interesting true crime story. The performance was amazing and the details were really well laid out. I’m shocked at what happened, and as a true crime reader, I’m really happy I selected this book.
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- Hazel
- 01-10-20
Very robotically read
The narrator is terrible on this audio. No feeling no dynamic, At times l thought it was computerised voice.
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- Katie
- 10-10-21
Constant focus on the women’s weight.
I had to stop listening because the first chapter is too focused on the women’s weight and as someone who has had eating disorders it made me feel nauseous
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- Shaun V. Hewitt
- 08-27-21
A chillingly awful case
I'm not sure I've learnt much from this book, other than that there are some people on this earth who are more evil than I could ever imagine.
It is good to hear the story covered in length here, rather than the small news items and Youtube 'documentaries' that never give the full, rounded details. Well written, everything I feel I need to know was covered, so the book doesn't leave me with unanswered questions as some books do.
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- Malin
- 09-09-21
fat phobic comments in the entire book
Great telling of this murderer, HOWEVER
the repeating " fat and therefore undesireable" commentary is unnecessary. she was not well liked due to her personality first and foremost
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- Megs A
- 01-21-22
Interesting
I think it was a interesting read. Although considering it was in the 90’s maybe a bit of where is she now? Etc etc .
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- MR R C THEOBALD
- 09-07-21
book
enjoyed this. Very good read, and good narrator. Worth listening to. Finished it quickly.
Bit slow at first, but persevere as it's worth the listen .
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- Tuftydawn
- 08-31-21
Not as in depth as I would have liked.
I thought that too much was made of the descriptions of the murderess as`fat', 'un-attractive' & 'cold'. That's an opinion not fact. The account was lacking psychological analysis. The narration was fine.
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- Anonymous User
- 01-13-23
Not too bad
Alot of pointless information and first 30 minutes could be skipped as it's pointless information
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- Rose
- 01-02-23
waffle, waffle, waffle
This might have been a good book. It’s certainly a true story reminiscent of another similar case where kids got in the way of a good time and so the mother killed one and severely injured two others then tried to blame somebody else, somebody that didn’t even exist. This one goes in to way too much detail though. Do we really need to know that one of the key witnesses sat up in bed and looked at the clock the day Joe told her that Ellen had been arrested? I don’t think so. Then there’s a blow by blow conversation at the station which could have been cut short. That’s what’s wrong with this book. Otherwise, not too bad though I wouldn’t recommend it.
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- Miss J M Darby
- 01-02-23
robotic
fascinating story but poorly told. very robotic narration. I would have shared this but for that factor
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- Amazon Customer
- 11-23-21
Horrific True Crime
Well written, horrifying true story of a mother who killed her children for insurance.
Poorly narrated in a monotone with no inflection in his voice.
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- Salena
- 03-04-22
Robot
Hated the narrator voice so robot like.
I don’t understand how any mother can do that to her children. So sad..
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- Kindle Customer
- 04-04-23
Chilling
Haven't been so chilled since Diane Downes..... have to do a shout out to the dead beat dad. I think Ellen's psyche is much more complicated than Downes or Smith.... and the dad needs to take some responsibility for what happened to his wee lads.
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- xenovert
- 02-23-23
Matter of fact
Really interesting case. Great work done by St Louis homicide squad detectives and the pathologist who conducted the autopsies.
If you're after macabre detail, this is not that book.
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- Wendy Ferrari
- 02-07-23
A clear and succinct narrative of events
This book was easy to listen to albeit the murderous actions of the subject were horrific. Well laid out and navigated through the process of apprehending and bringing to justice the perpetrator of such vile acts
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- Anonymous User
- 01-03-23
Slightly repetitive
I really enjoyed this book for the most part. It’s such a horrific story of these poor children who had to lose their lives in such awful circumstances, at the hands of the person who was supposed to love and care for them.
My slight annoyance is the last part of the book where we get a conversation with Ellen and the police. Every time the someone says something in the conversation, it states who is saying it like you would when reading a text conversation aloud. I figure this book was intended to be a physical paper copy where people were reading it rather than it being translated to audio and people would get the picture without reading the names every few words/sentences. Surely it could have been done better where we don’t have to hear Ellen’s name 50 times in a chapter. It really made the book hard to listen to at the end
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- Taniya S.
- 10-18-22
Tragic!
What a sad, tragic story! Only, it's not just a "story". Unfortunately, no one can truely know what is going through a mother mind when such a crime is committed, only she truely knows.
In loving memory of David & Steven. Young lives taken far FAR too young.
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- Georgiana Amelia
- 09-19-22
Excellent Writing Of an Horrific Crime
I found this book difficult to listen to, but the writer had written it so well that I was hooked from the beginning. The narrator was superb and dealt with a difficult subject matter in a neutral but engaging tone.
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- Anonymous User
- 07-16-22
Brilliant narration
Sad but great true story. It was hard not to feel so much anger towards this woman.
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- Toni Stocks
- 02-15-22
sad story
sad story and horrible woman but a great book. very well written and narrated.
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