About Lies Heart of Full
I must admit that while reading this book, I couldn’t help observing that the skill of Ann’s prose is below par here. It’s repetitive, disjointed, and the sentence structure sometimes had me reading back over to catch her meaning.
That being said, I still enjoyed this book. The story of Liysa DeWitt as told by Ann Rule is horribly fascinating. My heart goes out to the parents, sisters, and other relatives of Chris Northon, and especially to little Bjorn Northon whose “mydad” was taken so cruelly – evilly – from him by his own mother.
Liysa undoubtedly should have received a life sentence, seeing as the death penalty wasn’t an option. The plea bargain, reducing her sentence to 150 months, made my hair stand on end. The evidence indicates that in the process of murdering her husband, Liysa drugged him, used a taser gun on him, tried to drown him, and then shot him through the temple. Good Lord! Chris likely would have died from the drug overdose alone! Can you say “Overkill”?? Twelve and a half years is a devastatingly low sentence for such a dangerous woman. She’ll be out of prison at the age of 55 and will no doubt inflict much influence over her sons at that time. I can only imagine the havoc she’ll wreak in their young lives, even if she thinks she’s acting out of “love.” (I personally believe she doesn’t know what healthy motherly love is. The mention of her breast feeding until her first son was five years old, and still in the process of doing so with the younger son, not quite four, at the time of the murder seems to me a little over the top. Apologies to the La Leche gals.) She’ll also likely go on to insinuate herself into the lives of unsuspecting people at that time, and if she killed once with no apparent conscience, who’s to say she won’t do it again? All I can say is, if you’re a guy who will be middleaged in approximately ten years from now, don’t get involved with any women named “Liysa”!
It’s Ms Rule’s opinion that Liysa suffers from personality di
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