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Driven To Kill
by
Gary C. King (Goodreads Author)
By all appearances, twenty-nine-year-old Westley Allan Dodd was the perfect all-American boymodel high school student, camp counselor and U.S. Navy enlistee. But behind his mask of normalcy lurked a predatory sex fiend with a seventeen-year history of appalling acts of molestation and violence. Children were his victims and the parks of the Pacific Northwest his personal...more
Paperback, 272 pages
Published
September 1st 2000
by Pinnacle
(first published 1993)
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Driven to Kill was a very difficult book to read. The horrific insight into the mind of child molester/killer Westley Allan Dodd was truly chilling. Gary C. King did a marvelous job of including enough details of Dodd's crimes to help build the case against him without going overboard. The statements taken from Dodd's own diary were particularly disturbing. This isn't just a book about a child molester and murderer; it is essential reading for parents to help them understand the mind of a molest...more
I think this book is very readable, (although a warning that it's rather gruesome in terms of the despicable crimes it focuses on) - and King has certainly done his homework in terms of researching the criminal background of the cases he exposes here.
We get a clear picture of everything that happened and how it happened. What I find is missing, (and I feel that I really wanted to know), is a more in-depth psychological profiling of the criminal. I think that when readers read about gruesome crim...more
We get a clear picture of everything that happened and how it happened. What I find is missing, (and I feel that I really wanted to know), is a more in-depth psychological profiling of the criminal. I think that when readers read about gruesome crim...more
I don't really know what to say about this book except that it's disturbing. This is a true crime novel about a child serial killer. The depiction of the sexual element involved in these murders is graphic. As a parent it was extremely hard to read. As a survivor it was a trigger. A sad reminder of the evil that exists & the consequences of being a less than vigilant parent.
Way too reactionary for a non-fiction book. Interesting, but cringe-inducing both in style and content (though it should be noted the content is due to no fault of the author's).
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I didn't like the reactionary tone of the author (monster, vile, and evil are words that don't belong in a work of nonfiction--no matter who the book is about). But the story is intriguing and worth checking out.
page turner - hard to believe there are such disturbed ppl out there.....true crime book
I like true crime but with more of personal thoughts narrative from the "characters."
A very disturbing book a sick sick man it was a good read but hard to read about what he did to those poor little boys people like wes Allen Dodd should all be put down
Dec 15, 2008
Cody
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so far so good
This book gives a look inside the mind of a child molester/murderer. It recounts the crimes of Westley Allan Dodd from police reports and Dodds personal journal. This book is not for the squeamish as it tells exactly what Dodd did to his young male victims. After reading this you will think twice about leaving your children alone anywhere.
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Gary C. King is a freelance author and lecturer who has published more than 400 articles in true crime magazines in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He is also the author of several true crime books including: Blood Lust: Portrait of a Serial Sex Killer, Driven to Kill, Web of Deceit, Blind Rage, Savage Vengeance (with Don Lasseter), An Early Grave, The Texas 7, Murder in Hollywo...more
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