
The Poison Tree
A True Story of Family Terror
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Narrado por:
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Mel Foster
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Alan Prendergast
Edgar Award Finalist: The shocking account of a Wyoming father who terrorized his family for years - until his children plotted a deadly solution.
One cold November night, in Cheyenne, Wyoming, fifteen-year-old Richard Jahnke Jr., ROTC leader and former Boy Scout, waited for his parents to return from celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the night they met. When his father got out of the car, the boy blasted him through the heart with a twelve-gauge pump-action shotgun. Richard's seventeen-year-old sister, Deborah, was sitting on the living room couch with a high-powered rifle - just in case her brother missed.
Hours later the Jahnke kids were behind bars. Days later they made headlines. So did the truth about the house of horrors on Cowpoke Road.
Was it cold-blooded murder? Or self-defense?
Richard Jahnke Sr., special agent for the IRS, gun collector, and avid reader of Soldier of Fortune, had been subjecting his wife, Maria, and both children to harrowing abuse - physical, psychological, and sexual - for years. Deborah and her brother conspired to finally put a stop to it themselves. But their fate was in the hands of a prejudiced and inept judicial system, and only public outcry could save them.
Written with the full and revealing cooperation of the Jahnkes, this finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime is "the ultimate family nightmare, played out in the heartland of America.... From the night of the murder through both trials, convictions and both youngsters' eventual release...it's gripping reading" (Chicago Tribune).
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The book itself was worth a listen, although it definitely could have benefited from some editing. And I agree with some other reviewers that the narrator made all of the female characters sound vapid or whiny or both.
True crime story from the 1980s
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well performed. good story
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Some stories are best told in the narrator own voice, not what their impression of the persons voice is/was.
Didn’t like the narrator
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Heartbreaking
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Quality Literature
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it was pretty good
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The narrator was good, but when listening to sister’s stories, the narrator annoyed me tremendously. Or maybe I’m just annoyed by the girls writings and reactions.
Difficult story.
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(and I wish Audible and Kindle would list all of the credits. And the original copyright date of the texts and of the audiobooks. These things are part of the work. They are necessary to a full understanding of the style, interpretation, and abridgment choices of the production companies: For instance, why is this audiobook unabridged, while another, better-interpreted one is abridged? One reason might be that bandwidth and digital editing cost almost nothing in comparison with physical cassette tapes and their editing processes. And digital playback is less difficult and prone to glitches like the cassette player "eating" the tape from inside the cassette.)
at any rate, none of the crew is listed in the credits part of the audiobook's listing, so I don't know how to spell their names to write about them, much less seek out or request more of their work if I wish to compare.
The text, itself, though, if you run it through your head as imagined typescript, and, simultaneously to listening to the book, imagine a more appropriate and representative dramatic interpretation of said text, is finely balanced between showing what most likely happened in such a way that it does not unduly influence the emotions of the reader towards bias towards or against the perpetrators of the crimes described.
The flavor of the time period and the contemporaneous blocky, awkward relation of the facts of crimes and the workings of courts of law, by most of the news media of the day, are portrayed so faithfully, that I was transported, emotionally, back into the 1980s. I remembered how crime reporting was done, in a much less procedural manner.
An attempt seemed to be made to transform trials, by way of omitting various devices and procedures of the law (and, thereby, also, explanations of why they work that way, and how that leads to a more just result), into dramas that roughly adhered to the Dramatic Unities outlined by Aristotle. We news viewers who were ignorant of how trials functioned were often left with the impression that a great injustice had been done by some entity called The System, when, really, the fault lay with the state legislators who originally set down the descendants of British Common Law that were the relevant portions of their states' codes of criminal justice; or with some crotchety judge who should have retired decades ago, or, even better, stayed a prosecutor or a defense attorney.
At any rate, the author, here, takes pains to disabuse the reader of that sort of news media-enforced ignorance. He educates about procedure while he tells a compelling tale that proves the point of Richard Jahnke, Junior's favorite aphorism: "What can go wrong, will go wrong. "
A Complex, True-To-Period Depiction
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Great Book!
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Interesting listen but lags at times
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