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2013 New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards finalist
2013 eLit gold medal in True Crime
Rated #2 on list of "Top 25 Best True Crime Books" http//mysteryauthors.com/best-true-crime-books
On April 5, 1981, two college coeds were kidnapped from a residential street of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The next morning, the girls were found in a desolate mountain arroyo; one raped and murdered, the other savagely stabbed 33 times and left for dead. As fear engulfed the University of New Mexico's quiet campus, police had few clues to assist them in tracking down the vicious killer. This book is based on the true story of what happened that night in the Sandia Mountains, a shockingly brutal crime that changed the city of Albuquerque forever. It is a gritty tale of unspeakable violence and the relentless search for justice, but it is also the story of a young woman's incredible will to live ... and her life-long struggle to escape the legacy of that deadly arroyo.
True crime drama "Surviving Evil" will feature the "Escaping the Arroyo" story on November 5, 2015 on the Investigation Discovery Channel.
Escaping the Arroyo edition by Joyce Nance Mystery Thriller Suspense eBooks
As a criminology student as well as a fan of history, I found this book to be a great insight into the indignity and tragedy that befalls a victim of violent crime. And I was stunned to realize that I lived less than two miles from the crime scene and was at home snug in my bed when this crime was taking place (I was only 7) As a criminologist, it is my job to try to determine what differentiates a criminal from someone else in society and this book frankly makes the waters murkier. Overall, a great book from a budding author, I hope to see more from this author in the future, I would definitely give it two thumbs up.Product details
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The title tells nothing of what this book will be about. In fact, the cover itself might not be anything one would even take a second look at. It's the synopsis which drew me in.
Michael was an angry young man who grew up with his mother admittedly hating and beating him for infractions of his own and of his siblings. Despised at the way he was looked down upon by whom he calls the Anglos, he wanted a way to channel that anger and sought revenge. The way he sought to channel that anger and the revenge were definitely not productive ways and those around him paid dearly for his outbursts. People act out in anger in negative ways all the time and I imagine are remorseful afterward. Not in Michael's case.
One of his victims, the young lady who survived, suffered not only his dark vicious attack but her suffering was prolonged in ways that were compounded stemming from this savagery.
One thing I don't like about true crime is the on-going trials. Though "Escaping the Arroyo" is based on a true crime, the trial wasn't as lengthy. This book is written in a way that gives a fiction sense to it. The scenes jump to the many characters involved. It covers some of the background in Michael, Julie and Colene's lives to help the reader understand the why of the anger which led to the attack and the subsequent survival of one of the girls. While the scene-jumping and the many characters involved made it a bit confusing, it was easy enough to follow.
The book does cover why he sought out one of the two girls but it seems evident that the surviving girl was never aware of it.
This is a horrifying story of the kidnapping of two young UNM (University of New Mexico) coeds by a personality impaired, socially challenged, mentally inept maniac sometimes referred to as a human being. One girl is brutally raped and murdered. The other is stabbed 30+ times and left for dead in the bottom of an arroyo, surrounded by cactus infected, rock strewn vertical slope to an isolated roadway above. In spite of her numerous stab wounds that would have been fatal except for her intrepid desire to live, Colene Bush manages to survive. Her story of survival, then and many years after, will break your heart. I cannot imagine the reader not feeling a range of emotions that include horror, sadness and unbelief as he/she reads this story. The horrific crime affected, not only the life of the survivor, but many others, in a very diverse way, as well.
There is a great amount of detail regarding the background of the victims and the perpetrator at the beginning of the story. While some of it is beneficial to help the reader understand those involved a bit better, it could have easily been paraphrased and the length of the book somewhat reduced. In other words, it was a bit wordy.
Some competent editing would have given a plus to the content. There are lots of words out of place and lack of punctuation. While these oversights do not diminish the content of the story, they are a bit distracting.
I was astonished that I had never heard of this horrific crime since I live in the Albuquerque area and was living here in 1981 when this happened. So, I was very interested to read this. However, since I am an editor, grammatical and typo errors stick out... The author gave thanks to her editors and proofreaders, so I know the book was read before it was published. Although I'm being negative about this aspect of the book, I did enjoy the book and would encourage the author to write more. This crime sure made me think about the evil in this world, and I worried so much for Colene. I'm so sorry she had to endure this. On a final note, the photos at the end were useless on a because they were not enlarged and could not be.
Well it's a dry creek bed in the canyons of New Mexico. There in 1981, 19 year old Michael Guzman murdered and raped one University of Mexico student and brutally stabbed dozens of times her friend. He thought he had left no witnesses but the second girl, mortally wounded and having lost most of her blood, managed to crawl out of the arroyo and up on the highway to get help. She miraculously survived after hours of surgery but physically and mentally was never the same. The book covers 30 years & tells the struggles of the survivor, the trial of Guzman and how eventually Guzman was able to marry inside prison multiple women and father 4 children. I know life is not fair but the book made me furious to see what the survivor had to go through in her life and then see this murderer manipulate the system and stick the taxpayers with the bill for his children.
This is an honest and well-told account of a devastating personal tragedy that happened many years ago, but still resounds today... The reader can not help but feel, along with the victims, the horror and loneliness of such a brutal crime, the battle to survive and the ensuing trials in the process of pursuing some kind of "normal" life. It is a story that needed to be told so that we might better understand what victims face when the courtroom trial is over. I think it could be useful in social services work as well, as caseworkers will be inspired to compound their efforts in preventing child abuse. It is a powerful story.
As a criminology student as well as a fan of history, I found this book to be a great insight into the indignity and tragedy that befalls a victim of violent crime. And I was stunned to realize that I lived less than two miles from the crime scene and was at home snug in my bed when this crime was taking place (I was only 7) As a criminologist, it is my job to try to determine what differentiates a criminal from someone else in society and this book frankly makes the waters murkier. Overall, a great book from a budding author, I hope to see more from this author in the future, I would definitely give it two thumbs up.
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