Please I beg you do NOT read this book!! It's disgusting and will give you nightmares...we do not need to hear every detail of how life was in George's house of horrors. Not for anyone interested in Beth Short and not for anyone who has a weak stomach. AGAIN LEAVE THIS ONE ALONE. Hey can we burn the remaining copies now???

Why couldn't I have read the reviews on this before I tortured myself. I was praying there would be something at the end that would tie in all of the "evidence", um, not quite.
PLEASE, do yourself a favor and don't read this, unless you have a taste for horrible manuscript. However, if you do decide to read it, you won't believe how incredibly stupid and farfetched it is i.e. the references to Jan somehow resembling "Aunt Betty", please.
Worst book I have read in years.

This book is not a book I would suggest to a reader who is squeamish. It has many unnecissary scenes of explicit sexual abuse and mutilation. Janice shows very good evidence in making her sexual, physical, and vocal abuse as a child believable. This book seems more of a auto biography rather than an allegation of the murder of the Black Dahlia. Janice Knowlton and Micheal Newton put much more emphasis on the horrific experiences she is put through instead of specifically addressing the issue at hand. I believe that one of the worst downfalls to this book is the very detailed accounts of what Janice experiences,that in some cases did not pertain to the Black Dahlia case.
Because of these things I can understand where some speculation would be brought up. I do not doubt at all the account of any abuse that occured in the Knowlton house. Many people doubt her accounts because of the fact that they are repressed memories. She has many points in the book that support these memories though, such as Janice have authorities dig up a skeleton of a family dog that had been shot and buried by George during one of his spells of rage. Overall, this book is a pretty good book but I must say is is definately a gruesome account of her life.