You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan, Susan Fensten
You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan, Susan Fensten
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You Have a Very Soft Voice, Susan
A Shocking True Story of Internet Stalking

Author: Susan Fensten, Brian Whitney

Narrator: Linda Jones

Unabridged: 12 hr 41 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 02/13/2024


Synopsis

A firsthand look at a notorious Internet stalking campaign that the FBI described as a case "in a category by itself"—in the words of the victim herself.

After her father died in 2003, Susan Fensten turned to a genealogy message board to search for surviving relatives. Days later, she was delighted to receive an email from someone claiming to be a distant cousin. In fact, Susan had just been ensnared by a relentless sociopath.

She soon became the target of an elaborate cyber-hoax involving dozens of frightening characters, including known sex offenders, who made threats of kidnapping, murder, rape, torture, and cannibalism. Remarkable in its complexity, this story of Internet stalking is also a harrowing tale of courage in the face of madness.

This is a story about the search for family, the Internet Age, and a journey into the underbelly of American crime. Beyond raising questions about safety online, it forces us to question our perceptions of reality.

Contains mature themes.

About Susan Fensten

Susan Fensten is a native New Yorker and a book publicist. She studied film and art at Hunter College and fine arts painting and drawing at The Art Students League. Susan's photographs of gritty old New York City in the 1980s have been published in David Hammons Bliz-aard Ball Sale and in St. Marks is Dead: The Many Lives of America's Hippest Street, along with stories from her childhood downtown in the 1960s. She lives in New York.


Reviews

Goodreads review by jv on September 19, 2023

When I started reading this, I said that it was a bit like watching a multi-car collision in slow motion. I've finished. Reading this book WAS like watching a multi-car crash...from a rickety carnival ride.......more

Goodreads review by Octavia on May 20, 2019

This book was so weird! You Have A Very Soft Voice Susan is a true story and the story was so bizarre that I kept shaking my head and thinking, "whatt?!" The beginning of the book was a struggle to get through as you must read through all this background that doesn't add much to the story and just tr......more

Goodreads review by Gil on April 10, 2019

Bizarre, Horrifying Story This story is one of the most wild and bizarre I’ve ever read. The family that terrorized Susan seems to be straight out of a horror movie, like “The Hills Have Eyes” or something like that. But it was all true and just so unbelievably strange. It’s hard to say too much mor......more

Goodreads review by Elle❤ on March 18, 2019

4 stars *Thank you to the author and Netgalley for giving me an ARC in exchange for an honest review* This was a terrifying journey into the unexpected dangers of the internet and how susceptible and vulnerable it can easily make us to deception, manipulation and abuse. Especially when there is a ment......more

Goodreads review by evananda on March 06, 2019

I could not put this down, so I shut off my phones and went along for a crazy insane ride. This is a true story from the early days of social media. A weird and frightening case of cyber stalking. The author was the victim and we follow along as piece by piece every part of her life is unraveled and......more