Twilight Of Innocence: The Disappearance Of Beverly Potts (True Crime Series (Kent, Ohio).) (edit title)

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Liked It Rated 4 stars “A good history of the 1951 disappearance of Beverly Potts, published after the fiftieth anniversary of the day she vanished. This book goes into painstaking, at times almost tedious, detail about Beverly's disappearance and all the raised hopes and false leads afterwards. It has several good...” see full review » see other reviews »

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  • Rated 4 stars

  “A good history of the 1951 disappearance of Beverly Potts, published after the fiftieth anniversary of the day she vanished. This book goes into painstaking, at times almost tedious, detail about Beverly's disappearance and all the raised hopes and false leads afterwards. It has several good photographs of Beverly as well. It also presents clear personality portraits of the people involved: Beverly, her family, her best friend, and the investigators in her case. The book does a good wrap-up at the end in spite of the enduring mystery, telling what happened to all the characters in the decades after 1951, and then giving the author's own theory on the cause of Beverly's disappearance. I finished reading this book with a profound sense of frustration, given Badal's theory that Beverly was killed by someone she knew, probably someone on her own street, and that she may well still be on that street. A good, solid account and well worth buying. It's fairly short and could be read in a day or two.”

  Meaghan G wrote this review Monday, August 3 2009. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No

  
  
  • Rated 3 stars

  “True crime story of Beverly Potts, a 12 yr old girl who disappeared from a park at the end of her street in the 1950's, in the streets of Cleveland, OH. Beverly was never found. Nobody is really sure what happened but so many people never gave up the search & held on to hope. This is the story of the detectives, family members and friends who spent lifetimes searching for answers. James Jessen Badal also wrote the history of torso murders that happened in the Cleveland area starting back in the 1930's.”

  Abigail Christy wrote this review Friday, November 21 2008. ( reply | permalink ) Was this review helpful? Yes | No