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Because You Loved Me
Phelps chronicles the horrifying true story of love, loss, betrayal, and murder, in which 14-year-old New Hampshire teenager Nicole Dominico and her boyfriend Billy Sullivan, an 18-year-old man shed met on the Internet, brutally killed Nicoles mother Jeanne, in 2003. photos. Original.
Mass Market Paperbound, 429 pages
Published
December 1st 2007
by Pinnacle Books
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I just started this book and am reading half of the first chapter.
Because You Loved Me is a case study of different sorts of love, platonic, parental, romantic, and obsessive. It's easy to predict which type will go wrong. The High Queen of the drama queens, Nicole, falls in a twisted sort of love with macho manipulator Billy, and in a metter of days, she is blind to all the good things in her life. Her mom, her friends, her education, her home - Nicole no longer sees value in any of...more
Because You Loved Me is a case study of different sorts of love, platonic, parental, romantic, and obsessive. It's easy to predict which type will go wrong. The High Queen of the drama queens, Nicole, falls in a twisted sort of love with macho manipulator Billy, and in a metter of days, she is blind to all the good things in her life. Her mom, her friends, her education, her home - Nicole no longer sees value in any of...more
This is a true crime tale I found on the Kindle about who sounded a lovely lady in New Hampshire called Jeanne Domenico. She was murdered by her daughter's boyfriend with the knowledge and assistance of said daughter, a spoiled little bitch of the highest order..........all because Jeanne wouldn't let them live together. Her daughter had only just turned 16.
It is really sad as Jeanne had herself a lovely fiance, she worked like a dog to ensure her 2 kids wanted for nothing and all because ...more
It is really sad as Jeanne had herself a lovely fiance, she worked like a dog to ensure her 2 kids wanted for nothing and all because ...more
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I tend to read true crime and be intellectually engaged, but not always emotionally engaged. This one made me both sad and horrified. It's incredible that teens can become involved in the most bizarre things and think (at the time) that they are perfectly reasonable. The death of this woman was heartbreaking and so was what happened to the kids - two young lives completely destroyed. It very much reminded me of the movie Heavenly Creatures where both teens were so caught up in their own relation...more
This is my first true crime read. I enjoy documentaries about the same subject matter, so I thought I'd give this a go.
The book starts fairly slow and I think the author spent too many chapters on establishing the good nature of the victim. Once the story got started, it held my interest and the author did a good job of creating a few cliff hangers even when I already knew the outcome of the story.
My only real complaints deal with the author's style of writing. First wa...more
The book starts fairly slow and I think the author spent too many chapters on establishing the good nature of the victim. Once the story got started, it held my interest and the author did a good job of creating a few cliff hangers even when I already knew the outcome of the story.
My only real complaints deal with the author's style of writing. First wa...more
Now THIS is creepy. A woman has a 14-year old daughter, honor roll student, etc. And this girl "meets" a guy online and gets obsessed with him and it ends up with them killing the mom...the mom's boyfriend finds her and he is a suspect, but it was the little angel all along. UGH. Sort of a cautionary tale about meeting people online, or trusting your kids or something... actually profoundly disturbing.
This book was soooo sad. It is scary what a teenager will do for "love" or lust! This mother thought she was protecting her child and in doing so lost her life. So sad!!
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well written true crime account. Disturbing story. Phelps is a good writer. This is not my favorite of his.
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This was a very interesting story about family dynamics and shattered trust.
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M. William Phelps lives in Connecticut with his wife and three children.
He is the author of 14 true crime books.
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