I live in Potosi, about 15-20 miles from Quaker, where this took place. This book is the 100 % truth of what happened. My aunt is a family member of one of the victims and has told me about it. The book is available at the Washington County Library in paperback all of the time. I think many readers do not realize how small these towns are, Quaker is just a bunch of farms where everybody knows everybody and just about everyone is related. It was a shock that something like that would ever happen because even today, it just doesn't happen here.

Ella Jo Sadler has written a touching story of her experience with the brutal attack on her family which resulted in the deaths of her father and her best friend. She herself was beaten beyond recognition and left on the brink of death, and her mother was shot but not killed. The book kept me riveted to my seat until I finished it! The family showed such faith in God through the entire ordeal that it was an encouragement to my faith, as well!

This book tells it like it is. This is a true story, and it happend in a small town in Missouri. the older guy that committed the murders just recently died in prison. And the younger guy is out on parol {which should have never happend}. The lady who wrote the book "Murder in the Afternoon" is still suffering, She is 95yrs old and still lives on the property where this took place. She witnessed it all first hand, and was in a coma three weeks prior to the murders.