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But throughout the story despite the evil twisted world of David Brown, we see there is human kindness and some good people even in the most unusual places. Included are the tireless investigators and DA, a career criminal member of a biker gang who turned out to be more charming and compassionate and one of the most beloved people to come out of this story.
It's a long read, but worth it to make sure that justice is truly served in the end. But I feel I will always be left wondering about the lives of the three young girls most affected by this man and his crimes, Cinnamon, Patti and Krystal.
Jun 05, Barbara Tiede rated it really liked it Shelves: One of Ann Rule's best. Supposedly Linda was insisting that he get rid of the two teenagers, who'd lived with them for several years; actually Linda dead was worth a million dollars in insurance proceeds. As juveniles, he assures them, they would receive only a slap on the wrist. David and Patti quickly forget about Cinnamon; they secretly marry and have another daughter.
Five years down the road, incarcerated indefinitely in a prison for Young Offenders, Cinnamon, whose father is paying her little attention, learns about the new baby about the same time as one of the original investigators, never satisfied with the resolution of the case, contacts her … and Cinnamon gives him a more accurate account of the murder. Eventually this leads to the arrest of David and Patti on charges of conspiracy to commit murder.
While in custody, David will attempt to have the investigator, the prosecutor, and Patti murdered by a fellow inmate who's due for release, who will eventually give evidence against him.
David is currently serving a life sentence hopefully, until the despicable creep can rot in hell. Sep 17, aPriL does feral sometimes rated it really liked it Shelves: true-crime , non-fiction. David Brown loved child brides. All six of his marriages were to emotionally weak and uneducated females.
Most of them were 15 years old when David began having sex with them. No one seemed to think that odd. David had married Brenda, his first wife, when both were Both had dropped out of school a year before, and she was pregnant with Cinnamon when they married.
Number three and five, Linda they were married twice was only 23 when Cinnamon was 14, but both girls liked each other. David wa David Brown loved child brides.
David was so much smarter than both, and he cared for them with a tough, but wise guidance. After all, he was 40 by this time.
Cinnamon felt the pressure of competition for her father's love, but she didn't doubt that he loved her. After all, she was constantly grounded for the slightest infraction of normal household rules. She was expected to conform to the usual middle-class values.
He was rich, respected, had a good job, a nice house, hot cars and gave his wife, child, and relatives anything they asked for. Then one night, the police are called to the swanky home. Linda's sister Patti Bailey, 17 years old, with Linda and David's baby in her arms, and David know something bad has happened to Linda.
They think they know that Linda is dead in her bed, although they are too frightened to look. They think they know who killed her - 14 year old Cinnamon. The detectives have an open-and-shut case. Ann Rule writes brilliantly of a mystery that wasn't. Apr 08, Elle G. Reads rated it it was amazing Shelves: true-crime.
Mini Review: An excellent true crime novel! I have read so many of Ann Rule's novels and they truly never get old. She is a wonderful writer and adds all the pertinent facts for readers to fully grasp the case at hand. This one is extremely intriguing. I watched the movie on Lifetime ages ago about this case and have been patiently waiting for time to read the actual book.
Well, I wasn't disappointed! I highly recommend it. Aug 23, brenda belg parlaman rated it it was amazing. This book was very hard to put down!!! It is hard to imagine that a man did this to his own family!!!
This is a great read!! Shelves: little-free-library. David Brown, age 32, was a narcissistic sociopath who took out a huge amount of insurance on his year-old third and fifth wife Linda, then convinced his impressionable year-old daughter Cinnamon over a period of months that his wife wanted him dead and that Cinnamon must kill her stepmother to protect him. He enlisted Linda's year-old sister Patti, who had been living with them since age 11, in the scheme.
David had been molesting Patti since she moved in, and had groomed her and been s David Brown, age 32, was a narcissistic sociopath who took out a huge amount of insurance on his year-old third and fifth wife Linda, then convinced his impressionable year-old daughter Cinnamon over a period of months that his wife wanted him dead and that Cinnamon must kill her stepmother to protect him.
David had been molesting Patti since she moved in, and had groomed her and been sleeping with her, unknown to Linda. Now Patti was completely in love with David and viewed her sister as a rival. After forcing Cinnamon to take dozens of prescription painkillers and diuretics, which alone and in combination were highly toxic and potentially lethal, David insisted that Linda must be shot that night. A young girl like Cinnamon might not even have to do jail time, David told her. David then left the house and drove around for several hours, as Cinnamon shot Linda twice while she lay sleeping, with a gun Patti had given her.
Cinnamon then crawled into a dog house in the back yard where she vomited repeatedly and lay nearly comatose until police found her the next day, still clutching the confession David had made her write. The vomiting saved her life. David had also suggested at one point that she might want to shoot herself in the head after shooting Linda — but only to injure herself.
Maybe just nick the side of her head. In the aftermath of the murder, David secretly married Patti. Patti gave birth to a daughter, but David refused to claim the baby as his own, claiming Patti had slept with some guy in the neighborhood, even though he was so controlling Patti never had a free moment to spend with another man. But an investigator in the D. Eventually Cinnamon, incarcerated in a juvenile facility, wore a wire as her father visited and got him to make incriminating statements.
He was arrested, whereupon he hired a hit man to take out the investigator and prosecuting attorney. Unfortunately for him, the hit man was working for the prosecution and all of his conversations with David were recorded.
David was an eighth-grade dropout who had learned about computer data recovery working at Memorex, then started his own data recovery company and made a very good living. As he liked to tell it, embellishing generously, he had worked with NASA and the Defense Department to determine what killed the Challenger astronauts, had Pentagon connections, worked on the Stealth bomber, had helped with the "towering inferno" Los Angeles bank fire, had helped save more than a hundred lives in the MGM Grand hotel fire.
He and Linda a sometime employee were supposedly so vital to the Coca-Cola Company that Coca-Cola insisted they never fly together. Whenever David was interviewed by investigators or Ann Rule, every lie he told would begin with "honest to God. It was always David who was the victim, always aggrieved. The truth was always what served him best in the moment. It all seems so familiar, but I can't figure out why These are people who cheat in business, who steal from us, who break our hearts and move on without looking back — and without remorse.
These are the politicians who ignore the rules, get caught, and appear on television to explain why the rules the rest of us live by were not meant for them. And if we do not believe them, they are genuinely shocked. Who break the commandments, while telling us not to. Caught, they cry real tears and beg for forgiveness. Forgiven, they do not change. Cinnamon Brown spent seven years in a youth detention facility before being paroled.
Patti Bailey Brown served a sentence in the same facility but was released before Cinnamon. David Brown received a life sentence in He did die finally in prison in at age 61 of natural causes. This photo is reproduced in the book. The house was occupied by an Asian family with black hair, but a blonde woman in a dark jumper and white longsleeved blouse stands between the blinds and the window glass, arms crossed, looking down the street. But in the wake of Cinnamon's murder conviction, thanks in part to two determined lawmen, the twisted private world of David Brown himself unfolded with astonishing clarity -- revealing David Brown was the consummate entrepreneur: a computer wizard and millionaire by age thirty-two.
View 2 comments. Mar 26, Michelle Robinson rated it liked it Shelves: true-crime. This is a terribly sad story of one man who was able to manipulate three vulnerable women. I read this book years ago and could only come away from it feeling terribly sad about the havoc Brown was able to create and his total lack of remorse for any of the women involved. While I hardly ever feel sympathy for people who take the life of other people, I find Cinnamon to be almost as much of a victim as her step-mother.
Ann Rule was one of my automatic reads when I spent time reading this genre of This is a terribly sad story of one man who was able to manipulate three vulnerable women.
Ann Rule was one of my automatic reads when I spent time reading this genre of book. Her writing seems concise and without analytical. Allowing the reader to draw their own conclusions concerning the facts she presents. While this was well written, it left me so sad that I had to step back and find something lighter to read for a while.
I know I really liked reading this book. Dec 23, Bren fall in love with the sea. This guy David Brown.. I have read so many books by Ann Rule but this is one of the most upsetting. What this one guy does to virtually every woman in his life is horrifying to read ab out.
He was a master manipulator. Rule writes really well. Everything is well researched and she spears the reader nothing. The brutality of this book stayed with me and made me really hope nobody meets or has, a David Brown in their life. Mar 17, Tori Centanni added it Shelves: true-crime.
Ann Rule was a badass. This story is bananapants but so well told. Absolutely loved how the prosecutor and investigator couldn't let things go until they got the truth.
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