Review: Great story
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 09 28, 2011
I bought this story because I saw Franks being profiled on Investigation Discovery's Deadly Women. I thought the book did a very good job of showing how manipulative Franks could be (forging signatures, doctor shopping to get an acceptable psych evaluation and then forging it when that was not achievable, etc.) The author also did an interesting job in showing how there were so many ways the death of Ronald Williams and the members of the Vu family could have been avoided. Franks was given a bad psych evaluation more than three times and forged and falsified the majority of her police application but was still hired and then showed gross inability to do the job and was retained. The book also does a good job of telling the story from multiple perspectives, using the detectives interviews, newspaper reports, court transcripts,etc. to really flesh out the story. The story is truly fascinating. I just regret that it's non-fiction and not just the product of someone's crazy imagination.