The Unforgiven, Edith BradyLunny
The Unforgiven, Edith BradyLunny
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The Unforgiven
The Untold Story of One Woman's Search for Love and Justice

Author: Edith Brady-Lunny, Steve Vogel

Narrator: Keith Sellon-Wright

Unabridged: 7 hr 32 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 05/21/2019


Synopsis

It's a case reminiscent of the explosive story of Susan Smith, convicted in the drownings of her two young sons in South Carolina. But in The Unforgiven, three young children are in the back seat of a car driven by Amanda Hamm's boyfriend as it slips into an Illinois lake. Amanda and her boyfriend survive. Her three children do not.

The question of whether it was a horrible accident or a murderous plot divided family and friends and traumatized the entire community. The brief but intense police investigation included seven interviews Hamm voluntarily gave police without the benefit of counsel. The outcome remains controversial to this day and comes full circle with state child welfare workers' concern about children born to Hamm since the fateful day at Clinton Lake.

The Unforgiven coauthor and journalist Edith Brady-Lunny covered the case from start-to-finish, beginning the night of the drownings. Her coauthor Steve Vogel lives nearby. His Reasonable Doubt, considered a true crime classic, was a New York Times bestseller. Together they have extensive first-hand knowledge of the case and access to nearly every record related to the court proceedings.

About Edith Brady-Lunny

Edith Brady-Lunny is a journalist and coauthor of The Unforgiven.


Reviews

No Justice for Three innocent Children The book is well.written but the author is too bias toward the mother like she is the victim. No, three children were. It kept me awake at night seeing little hands pounding on a back window screaming for their mother to help as the car sunk. She didn't. Forgive......more

Goodreads review by corrie

I enjoyed this book. I did not know about this case but I sure remember Susan Smith - and when I saw her begging for the person to be found that sent her children into the lake - and saying “something isn’t right with this”. That being said, and if you remember that case as I did, I didn’t think thi......more

Thought provoking--especially if you like true crime and social issues.......more

What a circular tragedy Unlike the mass saturation of the Susan Smith case I had never heard about this terrible tragedy of similar proportions. At its heart is a young single mother with no clear motive for wanting to do her three babies harm. I guess that's what kept me up for hours, trying to deci......more