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Perfect Murder, Perfect Town : The Uncensored Story of the JonBenet Murder and the Grand Jury's Search for the Final Truth Mass Market Paperback – October 1, 1999

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In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenét Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation.

    • Why were the Ramseys, the targets of the investigation, able to control the direction of the police inquiry?

      • Can the key to the murder be found in the pen and writing pad used for the ransom note?

        • Was it possible for an intruder to have killed JonBenét?

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    "Like Norman Mailer's "The Executioner's Song" and Truman Capote's "In Cold Blood, " Schiller's "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town" will . . . be considered a . . . classic."-- "Fort Worth Star-Telegram""The most detailed . . . account of the mysterious killing of 6-year-old Colorado beauty queen JonBen?t Ramsey."-- "Boston Herald""Thorough and nonjudgmental. In this study of the JonBen?t case, Schiller shows that, despite all the questions raised about the quality of the investigation, this may be one murder that no one could have solved." -- "Tampa Tribune-Times""Provocative."-- "Atlanta Journal Constitution" "The story that Schiller tells sets the crime scene, identifies the cast and escorts readers along the twisting path of the investigation."-- "New York Daily News""Anyone looking for a true-crime book that is not only informative--and frightening--will find a winner in "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town"?."-- "Detroit News/Free Press""Impressive. . . . "Perfect Murder" is an avalanche of information with details galore. . . . Provides all that readers could want to know about the JonBen?t killing and investigation. . . . Admirably objective . . . one of the nation's most vexing unsolved murders."-- "Rocky Mountain News""An encyclopedic reconstruction of the investigation." --"International Herald Tribune""Satisfying--and chilling."-- "San Jose Mercury News"

    Like Norman Mailer's The Executioner's Song and Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, Schiller's Perfect Murder, Perfect Town will... be considered a... classic".

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    In Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, Lawrence Schiller thoroughly recreates every aspect of the complex case of the death of JonBenét Ramsey. A brilliant portrait of an inscrutable family thrust under the spotlight of public suspicion and an affluent, tranquil city torn apart by a crime it couldn't handle, Perfect Murder, Perfect Town uncovers the mysteries that have bewildered the nation.

      • Why were the Ramseys, the targets of the investigation, able to control the direction of the police inquiry?

        • Can the key to the murder be found in the pen and writing pad used for the ransom note?

          • Was it possible for an intruder to have killed JonBenét?

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      • Publisher ‏ : ‎ HarperTorch; Reissue edition (October 1, 1999)
      • Language ‏ : ‎ English
      • Mass Market Paperback ‏ : ‎ 832 pages
      • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061096962
      • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061096969
      • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
      • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 4.19 x 1.25 x 6.75 inches
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      Lawrence Schiller (b. 1936) first used photography as a way to see the world. He took his still camera everywhere, which resulted in a rich body of photographic work. As a true documentarian, his multi-faceted approach to telling a story, not just through photography, but also investigative journalism, film, television, and book publishing produced unique and deep perspectives on his subjects.

      With a career spanning more than five decades, Schiller has created a visual and written history of America during some of the most tumultuous and important years of the twentieth century. He ingratiated himself with the individuals behind the headlines, interviewing Marina Oswald on the private life of her husband; Gary Gilmore hours before his execution by a firing squad; and O.J. Simpson as he sat in jail waiting to be tried for murder. His unique interview process opened the door to his many collaborations with Norman Mailer, including The Executioner’s Song, which won the Pulitzer Prize. Schiller himself has written four New York Times bestsellers and his films have won an Oscar and seven Emmys.

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      Customers find the book well-researched and informative. They describe it as a good, compelling read with plenty of discussion about the murder. However, some readers found the content difficult to follow at times due to too much background information and redundancy. The length was also criticized for being long with no conclusion.

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      37 customers mention "Detail"32 positive5 negative

      Customers appreciate the book's thorough coverage of the case. They find it informative and well-researched, providing an in-depth study of the murder. However, some readers feel the book contains too much unnecessary filler. Overall, readers consider it a comprehensive and detailed account of the case.

      "...the death of Jon Benet are probably the best overall summaries of the ill-fated investigation...." Read more

      "...Lawrence Schiller recounts these rumors, as well as quite a lot of actual facts, in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, his book on the still-unsolved..." Read more

      "...I wouldn’t go that far, but it was a decent account of the Ramsey case and helped pass time on the treadmill and recumbent bike at the gym...." Read more

      "This book is the most complete, comprehensive overview of the case that I’ve read. Plus, it doesn’t have an agenda...." Read more

      22 customers mention "Readability"22 positive0 negative

      Customers find the book readable and well-written. They appreciate the thorough account without bias. However, some readers feel it's a bit dated.

      "...This was just an OK read. I think the book could have benefitted by some competent editing..." Read more

      "...This is a fast, well written read that does not have any pro Ramsey bias. You absolutely need to read this book." Read more

      "It's a long book so there's plenty of discussion about the murder, but the real focus of this book is the dynamics of the investigation and conflict..." Read more

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      3 customers mention "Crime detail"3 positive0 negative

      Customers appreciate the detailed crime analysis in the book. They find it an interesting read with plenty of discussion about the murder.

      "...recounts these rumors, as well as quite a lot of actual facts, in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, his book on the still-unsolved murder of the little..." Read more

      "It's a long book so there's plenty of discussion about the murder, but the real focus of this book is the dynamics of the investigation and conflict..." Read more

      "Perfect Murder, Perfect Town was an exceptionally interesting read...." Read more

      7 customers mention "Difficulty to follow"0 positive7 negative

      Customers find the book difficult to follow at times, with too much background information.

      "...in any way actual written or verbal witness testimony, but it's pretty tedious...." Read more

      "...I found it a bit difficult to follow at times, as there was so much background given on all the "players"...." Read more

      "...Tedious to the max and while I was reading this tome the phrase 'too much information' kept ringing through my bored head." Read more

      "...the case was tainted from the very beginning and therefore can never be sorted out...." Read more

      6 customers mention "Length"0 positive6 negative

      Customers find the book too long and detailed. They also mention it lacks a conclusion.

      "This book is interesting and thorough, but it's also just way too long...." Read more

      "...The book was long and very detailed, but kudos to the author for all of the research that went into this compelling account." Read more

      "I soo hate this book. It is well over 800 pages long...." Read more

      "Long, detailed, and in the end, tedious. It appears that the only goal was to detail all the controversy between police, DA, and the Ramseys...." Read more

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      Customers find the book's content repetitive and boring. They mention it contains too many unnecessary details about meetings.

      "...the same information. Instead, the author, filled page after page with unnecessary, repetitive details about meetings that went nowhere, petty..." Read more

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      "...Thorough, but only a few new items. Too much unnecessary filler. Still a good read." Read more

      "Way too dense with unnecessary facts and such. I never made it more than half way through -totally Lost interest." Read more

      Top reviews from the United States

      • Reviewed in the United States on March 25, 2014
        This book along with Steve Thomas’ account of events following the death of Jon Benet are probably the best overall summaries of the ill-fated investigation. The title of this book, however, is misleading in that Jon Benet’s death may not be a perfect murder and Boulder is certainly not a perfect town -- not then and not now!

        Despite millions of dollars spent by public officials on trying to come up with a prosecutable case, authorities today do not appear to be any closer today, almost 20 years later, than they were in the late nineties. The central question of what the heck happened in that house on that night to this most unfortunate little girl has not been determined.

        Having read a dozen or more books and hundreds of news media stories about this incident, I am left with the impression that Jon Benet's death may have been the unintended consequence of some ill-advised actions on the part of her family members, most likely the older Brother Burke and possibly the Mother, Patsy. Whether the events leading to her death constitute murder is an open question but is doubtful in my view and this may be part of the reason there has been no criminal prosecution to date, i.e., there was no criminal intent leading to her death, just the unfortunate outcome of other actions that were meant to harm or punish her but not to result in her death. The resultant death was then made to look like a botched kidnapping to direct attention away from family members, an effort that has been successful to date.

        The notion of an intruder and botched kidnapping is pure hokum -- part of the parent's desperate attempt to make her death seem like the result of a criminal act by an unknown person or persons. If there was an intruder who committed these actions, what would have been the motive? Money obtained through a kidnapping – not likely since the phantom kidnapper supposedly killed the hostage, multilated the corpse and then hid the body in an obscure location in the house and departed the premises leaving behind only the farcical ransom note as a bargaining chip. A person in that situation would not have anything to trade for the money. A real intruder would at least have taken the body away to preserve parental fear as an inducement to hand over the money. No, kidnapping for money was not an element of this incident.

        How about a home invasion for the purpose of sexually assaulting the victim? The way the victim died and whose corpse was subsequently multilated doesn’t seem credible. If sexual assault was the motive, it would be far more rational to disable the victim, remove her from the premises and then carry out the sexual assault at another location. Killing the victim on site and hiding the body simply makes no sense, even to a sexually deranged pedophile.

        What’s the case for family members being the perpetrators? First, the parents systematically and thoroughly disregarded the instructions in the ransom note to keep quiet about Jon Benet’s disappearance until the money was handed over. There were numerous threats that Jon Benet would be unceremoniusly killed if any part of the instructions were not followed. Now, early in the morning when the parents first discovered she was missing, they supposedly had no information on her whereabouts – only the ransom note.

        Without any hesitation, the parents began communicating with police, friends, and others resulting in dozens of people flooding the premises in direct violation of the ransom note instructions. If it was a matter of coughing up $118,000 in exchange for getting Jon Benet back, it would have been easy to do. To do otherwise would put Jon Benet in grave danger – why risk it? Also, the older brother Burke was removed from the home and placed safely away from police and investigators. It was claimed that he slept through the whole ordeal and knew nothing about any of the activities that night.

        Somehow Jon Benet lost her life that night, perhaps due to an accident or as a result of some other activity such as punishment for misbehavior or a prank or retribution arising out of sibling rivalry/resentment. The public will probably never know the truth unless John or Burke Ramsey decides to reveal it. If Burke was the perpetrator, it would not be much of a stretch to see that the parents would want to shield him from responsibility since it would likely mean removal from the home, possibly subjecting him to the juvenile justice system and stigmatizing him for life. If that were to happen, the parents would have lost both their children on top of John Ramsey’s earlier loss of a daughter in an auto accident, an unbearable prospect. When Burke was questioned later at length, all he had to say was that he was asleep and knows nothing about what happened, and in the absence of any physical evidence linking him to her death, there would be no indication he was involved.

        The most plausible explanation is often the simplest – Occam’s Razor. Faced with the inadvertent or unintended death of Jon Benet, the parents most likely went into extreme damage control mode and concocted this whole preposterous scenario of an intruder, a kidnapping for ransom of a measley $118,000 in order to shield the surviving child. By staging the corpse and later “finding it” and contaminating the house evidence and throwing up this whole smoke screen while the house was filled with police, friends and emotionally distraught parents, etc., the police and investigators were effectively compromised and prevented from knowing what really happened that night. Everything the Ramseys have done since that time has been in support of the intruder scenario. It’s doubtful that the public ever know what really happened that fateful night in Boulder, the not so perfect town!
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      • Reviewed in the United States on September 5, 2020
        Many parents direct their kids toward activities that they themselves enjoyed growing up. There's nothing inherently sinister about it. So when Patsy Ramsey had a beautiful little daughter, she put her in pageants, which she'd participated in as a girl. While it seems very unlikely at this point that the pageants had anything to do with JonBenet's death, at the time it lead to a lot of suspicion. Lawrence Schiller recounts these rumors, as well as quite a lot of actual facts, in Perfect Murder, Perfect Town, his book on the still-unsolved murder of the little beauty queen. Sourced from what seems to have been exhaustive research and interviews with as many of the players as possible, it recounts how the case developed (and developed issues) right from the moment the cops were called to report a kidnapping until the case was finally submitted to the grand jury.

        What actually happened as a result of that grand jury (an indictment was issued against John and Patsy Ramsey, but the prosecutor refused to sign it) isn't covered, and that is of course the most interesting part. Who did it? Someone did. The book steadfastly refuses to answer the question, though. Schiller clearly is trying to stay neutral as much as possible, presenting the police department's firm belief that the parents were getting away with murder with just as much credibility as the prosecutor's office investigator's belief that it was an intruder. The answer is, of course, that we will almost certainly never know. JonBenet is dead. Patsy Ramsey, too, has passed away in the years since. John is still around, but unless he or whoever else might be responsible issues a deathbed confession, this case will remain forever open.

        Schiller spends a lot of time on context to really develop a comprehensive picture of what was happening at the time in the world in which the Ramseys lived. The City of Boulder, its tightly controlled development and the resulting high price of real estate creating a little enclave, the rareness with which the police department had to investigate serious crimes, the charging philosophy of the District Attorney...all are relevant to what happened, or didn't happen. It's obvious that there were serious complications even from the start, with friends at the Ramseys having arrived at their home even before the police, with John apparently shutting the open basement window, with his discovery of his daughter's body and race with her upstairs. All of that destroyed valuable evidence, evidence that could have solved the crime maybe. Was clumsiness and shock at the root of the Ramseys' behavior? Or criminality?

        We're presented with evidence both ways. At some points, reading this book, I was sure they'd done it, but at others sure they wouldn't have. I kept having to remind myself that I know full well, as a former attorney, that the parents absolutely did the smart thing by getting lawyers hired so soon and refusing to cooperate with the police. If I have one piece of free legal advice I ever give, it's that you should never ever talk to the police without counsel present. I would have done the same thing in their place. But it's so hard to reconcile this understanding with the gut assumption that refusing to talk to cops about the death of your daughter "isn't what an innocent person would do". It's easy to say they should have cooperated, but until you've been in their place and figured out that you're likely the number one suspect in a murder, it's hard to say what you would have done differently with their resources. To get back to the book, it's well-researched and well-developed. I could have done with less about the tabloid reporter, who Schiller clearly found interesting but I did not. It doesn't have much of a narrative flow, it's more a work of reporting than of story-telling, but it's organized and clear. I would definitely recommend it to those curious about the crime!
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      • Reviewed in the United States on December 28, 2021
        This is “the uncensored story of the JonBenet murder and the grand jury’s search for the truth.” A review I read said that like Truman Capote’s “In Cold Blood,” or Norman Mailer’s “The Executioner’s Song,” this book would be a classic someday. I wouldn’t go that far, but it was a decent account of the Ramsey case and helped pass time on the treadmill and recumbent bike at the gym.

        The political infighting between the cops and the district attorney’s office was interesting, as were the details about those closest to the Ramseys and how they were treated by the Ramseys as the investigation progressed.

        This was just an OK read. I think the book could have benefitted by some competent editing (which kind of surprises me, given Schiller’s notoriety. It’s not like this is his first rodeo). Didn’t make me want to search out any more of his work to read.
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      • Reviewed in the United States on November 30, 2024
        This book is the most complete, comprehensive overview of the case that I’ve read. Plus, it doesn’t have an agenda. It’s just laying out the facts, of both sides. Very well done. A timeless classic.
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      • Reviewed in the United States on November 12, 2024
        I have been obsessed with the JonBenet case for decades. This is a fast, well written read that does not have any pro Ramsey bias. You absolutely need to read this book.
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      • Reviewed in the United States on August 21, 2022
        It's a long book so there's plenty of discussion about the murder, but the real focus of this book is the dynamics of the investigation and conflict between police and prosecutors. It actually means the book is still relevant 20+ years later, for the insight it brings to the challenges of investigation and prosecution in a small town.
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      • Reviewed in the United States on May 5, 2024
        Was a gift for a friend and she was excited about getting it. She loves a good book and I am glad she loved getting this book
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      • Fleur Jamieson
        5.0 out of 5 stars Very informative
        Reviewed in Canada on January 8, 2022
        Not an easy book to read or feel good about as there is no satisfying ending. Can't believe the 25yr anniversary coincided with me finishing the book. We all know the first 24hrs of a crime are most important. Nobody told the Boulder P.D. that I guess. And you never get that time back. The investigation afterwards was well done by the detectives but the D.A's office had no backbone. The Ramsey's took charge of their dept. What a mess. Kudos to Steve Thomas for his unrelentless devotion to the job. I'll be reading his book next.
      • Ludovica Brienza
        2.0 out of 5 stars This book is a missed opportunity (NOT RECOMMENDED!)
        Reviewed in Italy on May 6, 2021
        It's difficult to imagine such a thoroughly researched book coming off so PEDANTIC and uninteresting. This book reads more like a biography of the officers/DAs involved in the case than a book about the actual murder. I had high hopes of finally shedding a little light on this incident, but I was bitterly disappointed - this account is mostly concerned with newspaper articles and letters exchanged between the Boulder PD and DAs, focusing pretty much exclusively on the people who investigated the case. Unless you're looking for an extended biography of Boulder PD officers and Alex Hunter - along with unnecessary pages of background info about people who were marginally, if that, involved - this is NOT THE BOOK FOR YOU. Rarely do I find a book about a case I'm so interested in DRAGGING as much as this one (especially given the chunks I skipped, unable to handle any more useless information). Do not buy this book if you are looking for an account of the evidence or the case itself; however, do buy it if you are interested in the minutiae of the grand jury process, or the war of attrition between the Bolder police and DA in the 1990s.
      • cardenio
        5.0 out of 5 stars An excellent and necessary work.
        Reviewed in the United Kingdom on September 16, 2019
        This is an impartial and exhaustive telling of the investigation of the tragic death of JonBenet Ramsey. I found it to be an incredibly interesting and informative book that reveals an investigations' complexities and problems, some insurmountable, that ordinarily we are not privy to. As such I think this is an invaluable work not just for those with an interest in this case, but to anyone with an interest in such investigations and searches for justice.

        The awful truth is that there will probably never be justice for JonBenet, but Lawrence Schiller has produced a work of the highest standard to illuminate why.

        Note to add that There are no photos in this kindle edition - you're not going to be suddenly confronted with disturbing images when you turn a page. Injuries to JonBenet are described when necessary in a clear and factual manner, but not at all gratuitous.
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      • Rachel J. Lane
        5.0 out of 5 stars Comprehensive account of the events.
        Reviewed in the United Kingdom on August 12, 2024
        Excellent book detailing events in Boulder in 1996.
      • Tom P.
        5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended
        Reviewed in Canada on February 11, 2017
        Great overview of the case, I have one issue with the paperback edition, the page numbers are not the same as the hard cover edition.