Lost and Found: A Daughter's Tale of Violence and Redemption Book

I was the same age as these boys and living in the South Suburbs of Chicago when they were killed, so these murders left a great impression on me. I was in a barber chair when the news came over the radio that the boys' bodies had been found and identified. As the authors posit, I felt that the innocent time that I was living in was gone forever as I walked home from the barber shop. This is the second book about these murders that I have read--the excellent Three Boys Missing by James A. Jack being the other.

This book is well-researched and, for the most part, excellently written with a strong narrative drive. Of course, I knew the outcome of the story, but, nonetheless, it remained "a page-turner" for me. Most of the new revelations in this book concern the "solution" to the 40-year-old case: The apprehension and ultimate conviction of Ken Hansen. For me, this is a very startling aspect of this book. I'm not sure that Ken Hansen is the killer and the fact that many people do not believe the State's Attorney's case against Hansen was a strong one upsets me. It seems as if the prosecution's case rests solely on Hansen's telling others that he did the deed. After 40+ years he was convicted on heresay with very little direct evidence linking Hansen to the murdeers. Yet, two separate jurys handed down the verdict of guilty. Reminds be a bit of Stalin's Russia so well-depicted in the recent novel Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith.