Murder in Pleasanton, Joshua Suchon
Murder in Pleasanton, Joshua Suchon
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Murder in Pleasanton
Tina Faelz and the Search for Justice

Author: Joshua Suchon

Narrator: Joshua Suchon

Unabridged: 6 hr 9 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 08/23/2022

Synopsis

A journalist digs into the California cold case of a teenager murdered in his hometown in this disturbing true crime account.

In April 1984, fourteen-year-old Foothill High freshman Tina Faelz took a shortcut on her walk home. About an hour later, she was found in a ditch, brutally stabbed to death. The murder shook the quiet East Bay suburb of Pleasanton and left investigators baffled.

With no witnesses or leads, the case went cold and remained so for nearly thirty years. Then the investigation finally got a break in 2011. Improved forensics recovered DNA from a drop of blood found at the scene matching Tina's classmate, Steven Carlson.

Through dusty police files, personal interviews, letters, and firsthand accounts, journalist Joshua Suchon revisits his childhood home to uncover the story of a shocking crime and the controversial sentencing that brought long-awaited answers to a tormented community.

Includes a new chapter with updated details of the case.

About Joshua Suchon

Pleasanton native Joshua Suchon was a reporter at the Oakland Tribune for ten years before switching careers to pursue a lifelong dream to become a baseball play-by-play announcer. He's now the radio announcer for the Albuquerque Isotopes, the triple-A affiliate of the Colorado Rockies. Murder in Pleasanton is his third book and first true crime publication.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Fishface on January 31, 2016

This is a good, well-written story about a cold case and how it finally got solved. The author did an unusually good job of painting a picture of the personalities involved -- not normally the case when almost all of the major players in the story are young kids. I really got a sense of who Tina and......more

Goodreads review by ♥ Marlene♥ on February 14, 2017

This was a well written true crime book. Again an old case (it seems lately I have read a lot of old case tc books) but I thought it an interesting read and not boring. Only thing annoying was that he sometimes called people by their first names and then by their last names and you know how bad I am......more

Goodreads review by Christine on April 03, 2023

Well written No drawn out boring histories and plenty of researched interviews. I especially enjoyed the pictures and articles which frequented many of the chapters. You have to applaud those in law enforcement that don't give up on cold cases. I enjoyed this book and so glad that justice was finally......more

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