Kelly Gaines

Murderous Minds Volume 5 is an interesting bit of true-crime lore. Presenting six different stories of figures that are not your typical subjects, Becker and Gaines do a good job of setting up and relating the basic story and background of each person. Some of these cases, while not perhaps as newsworthy, are ones that I have heard before. This is not necessarily the fault of the author, as the Internet and sites like YouTube, where many interested in true crime like to present their own stories, makes telling tales that haven’t been told before harder to do. Overall, the writing style is serviceable and straightforward and make for a relatively quick read. As this is a part 5 of what seems to be an ongoing series, I think it would be interesting for a few of these or perhaps all the volumes to be collected together as one book. As it stands now however, this is certainly worth a couple hours of your time to read.… (meer)

One would assume that theoretically books for the genre of True Crimes would be easy to write, and essentially, they would be correct as these books merely requires the research for the facts involved. However, there’s a certain intrinsic quality in the writing of this genre that is required to do it in a coherent interesting manner which garners the interests of readers and to keep it, and the author of this book, Ryan Becker [and anyone involved with him] is one such True Crimes author capable of doing it consistently.

In this volume of Murderous Minds, Mr. Becker, gives his readers a collection of six manipulative individuals who had used their skills to have their gullible individuals fall prey in whatever they wanted them to believe; such as having an entire community believing she had the uncanny psychic ability of foretelling the demise of others, while in reality covering up the murders she had committed with arsenic. With a glorified belief they were doing something good, these apparent “brainwashed” individuals, would up committing immeasurable actions fraught with sheer wickedness and ferocity.

For having given his readers another well-constructed collection of True Crime stories, I happy to give Mr. Becker 5 STARS from this aficionado of this genre of books.… (meer)