Early Graves, Thomas H. Cook
Early Graves, Thomas H. Cook
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Early Graves
A True Story of Murder and Passion

Author: Thomas H. Cook

Narrator: Thomas H. Cook

Unabridged: 9 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 05/19/2021


Synopsis

Shocking true crime from the Edgar Award–winning author. "Powerful . . . A frightening close-up of sociopathic personalities at their most deadly" (Vincent Bugliosi, author of Helter Skelter).

Evil has a way of finding itself. How else could you explain the bond between Alvin and Judith Ann Neelley, who consecrated their marriage in blood? Before the killings started, they restricted themselves to simple mischief: prank calls, vandalism, firing guns at strangers' houses. Gradually their ambition grew, until one day at the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia, they spotted Lisa Ann Millican. Three days after Lisa Ann disappeared, the thirteen-year-old girl was found shot and pumped full of liquid drain cleaner. In between her abduction and her death, she was subjected to innumerable horrors. And she was only the first to die. Drawing on police records and extensive interviews, Thomas H. Cook recounts the story of Judith Ann Neelley, who at nineteen became the youngest woman ever sentenced to death row.

About Thomas H. Cook

Thomas H. Cook was born in Fort Payne, Alabama, in 1947. He has been nominated for the Edgar Award seven times in five different categories. He received the best novel Edgar for The Chatham School Affair, the Martin Beck Award, the Herodotus Prize for best historical short story, and the Barry for best novel for Red Leaves, and has been nominated for numerous other awards.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Nikki on January 18, 2012

i knew the people that did this we had their twins as foster kids there is so much more that has happened since they went to prison it is unreal but the twins (wont say names) r realy good kids nothin like them......more

Goodreads review by ♥ Marlene♥ on October 31, 2016

Decent true crime book about a killer couple not as well known as some others. I think that was mostly because they were caught pretty quickly. If I after reading a book do not immediately write a review half of the book will be gone out of my foggy (but clean) mind. Or it must have been so unusuall......more

Goodreads review by Bill on June 03, 2023

I read this book in a three hour, non-stop session. Judith Neelley is the star of the story, along with her husband Alvin. The lovebirds moved on up from robberies to the torture, rape and murder of a thirteen-year-old girl. Judy had injected Drano and Liquid Plumr into the victim and when the chemic......more

Goodreads review by Bettye on July 06, 2017

The family that preys together Alvin and Judith Neelley were a killer couple. They did everything together, including robbery and murder. Judith was so devoted to Alvin that she abducted females for him to rape, then she got rid of them. I don't recall that being part of the marriage vows, but that's......more

Goodreads review by Fishface on January 17, 2016

Grim and horrifying, and not nearly as satisfying as I'd hoped in the area of explaining how people get to be like this. I shudder every time I look at the cover, and I may not even be able to keep the book.......more