A Compelling, Quite Painful, Search for Emotional Relief in the Aftermath of A Sister's Murder

Dennis Fleming's "She Had No Enemies" is a compelling, if quite painful, recounting of his personal odyssey in the aftermath of his youngest sister's senseless murder by a serial killer; a murder that was meaningful only in the sense that it led directly to the killer's apprehension by police, and eventually, years later, to his execution. Fleming's memoir is the most heart-rending More...

Far More than a Fascinating and Gripping Memoir

Dennis Fleming has found a way to enter the complex, difficult, and elusive world of writing with this excellent introspective mind-purging memoir recounting the 1980 brutal death of his little 18-year-old sister Mickey by a serial killer. Twenty eight years have passed since that horrid incident and Fleming manages to revisit every aspect of the tragedy, not only by taking the reader to the scene of the crime in visceral detai More...

MANY WRONG TURNS LEAD TO CATHARSIS FOR AUTHOR FLEMING

28 years ago today, on July 25, 1980, Mary Fleming was killed. It took her brother, Dennis Fleming, many wrong turns in life and a quarter of a century to tell the story of her brutal murder in his memoir, “She Had No Enemies.”

The facts are, as often, deceptively simple. On a warm summer day, Mary, the youngest of the Fleming children, affectionately nicknamed “Mickey,” is followed home from a walk to the corner marke More...

She Had No Enemies, a memoir by Dennis Fleming, shares the gut-wrenching story of the murder of the author’s eighteen-year-old sister, Mickey, nearly thirty years ago. The book is more than just a memoir, as Fleming explores the emotion behind not just his younger sister’s murder, but the mind and rationale of the killer.

Bits of humor and enlightenment throughout the work make this heavy-hearted memoir a more engaging read. Fleming begins by introducing the reader to his large famil More...

She Had No Enemies is a personal and touching true crime story about the death of the author’s young sister, Mickey, by a serial killer. At times it was difficult to read, but there is so much to this tragic story from his own family dynamics to the legal drama that came with the arrest of the killer. The story clearly shows how the death of someone so young damages those who love them physically, mentally, and spiritually.

Those who suffer through this type of loss have to make More...