Murder In The Family (Pinnacle True Crime) (ISBN 0786011351)

Scary:
If only the Newmans had changed the locks on the door and kept their windows locked.....This is a sad and disturbing story of a mother and her two little girls who were brutally murdered by a family member! I found all the trial talk a bit boring. I really doubt an interview with the killer himself would add anything, since Kirby Anthoney is nothing but a lunatic liar, and who could believe him? I think it would have been better if the author focused on how Anthoney became the monster that he is. There was a hint that Anthoney had an abusive father but further insight would have been better. Not that it would have excused Kirby of this heinous act, but it would have been interesting to find out alittle more about him. What started out as a book to give you nightmares, wound up putting me to sleep.

A very touching story............:
When I started reading this book I could not stop. I really felt for this family. I think Mr. Barer did a very nice job in researching the correct information and writing this book. I still have alot of questions even after finishing the whole book. I'm left wondering what really did occur when the murders took place. Did Nancy the mother have to watch her two children get murdered? Has Kirby Anthony taken responsibility for this gruesome murder, or is he still denying it? The photos of the actual crime scenes were too small to view and in b & w, but the diagrams shown instead were large enough to view and make out the details of the crime. After reading this I still could not stop thinking about the whole story. I did indeed have nightmares. I give this book 5 stars.

SHOCKING AND PUMMELS THE SENSES!:
BURL BARER GIVES AN EXCELLENT, DEEPLY-INFORMED TRUE CRIME READ WITH THIS BOOK! I COULDN'T PUT IT DOWN! SAD, SHOCKING, AND ULTIMATELY UNREASONABLE MURDER BY A DERANGED PERSON.

A MUST FOR EVERY TRUE CRIME LIBRARY:
Burl Barer has, in the past few years, distinguished himself as America's premier investigative true crime journalist. MURDER IN THE FAMILY was his first "serious" true crime book, following his vastly amusing MAN OVERBOARD: THE COUNTERFEIT RESURRECTION OF PHIL CHAMPAGNE. While Barer has followed MURDER IN THE FAMILY with several more well written and heart breaking stories, there is something about MURDER IN THE FAMILY that lifts it above and beyond other true crime books -- perhaps it's Barer's brilliant narrative, the insightful background material discovered in his personal investigation into the crime, or the nature of the crime and the manner in which rapist/murderer Kirby Anthoney was brought to justice. Whatever the reason, MURDER IN THE FAMILY remains perhaps one of the most emotionally involving true crime books ever written. If you have not read it before, I suggest you read it now -- and maybe get the other books in Barer's true crime series. While each is distinct, the quality of MURDER IN THE FAMILY is not compromised in his other efforts. Anyone who reads true crime should have MURDER IN THE FAMILY in their library.

Murder in Anchorage!:
The Newman Murders was a terrible tragedy worse for the father and husband who was not there but out of state. His troubled nephew would be arrested, tried, and convicted for the brutal murders of his aunt and two young nieces. I remember this book quite well because of the setting in Anchorage, Alaska where the family lived. The nephew deserves his punishment but it was such an unspeakable crime and to think that it was a family relative makes it worse. My heart goes out to the Newman family including the husband but I don't remember much about him except that he was out of state and not a suspect which I never thought he was because of it. Who would have thought that the triple homicide that happened quickly but not quietly. The thought of a dangerous psychopath is one thing but to have him to live and sleep in your own home when you don't know his past or how dangerous he is is just as bad as knowing the boogeyman. In this terrible, sad case where three innocent productive lives were snuffed from us forever, the danger lurked inside the family. Burl Barer writes a good true crime book about the murders that happened so far away that does not get reported or talked about on television nearly enough. Danger can lurk in the family and not the outside world.