The Setup

I loved the This American Life episode about this story, and I picked up this book at some point when it was a Kindle Daily Deal and never got around to reading it...until now. So I'd kind of forgotten some of the details from the TAL episode, and the book obviously goes into it all in way more depth. And also some MORE stuff happened after the episode was recorded. So it felt pretty fresh to me even though I'd heard a lot of the story before. It's a seriously intense story and I admire all the investigative work Pete Crooks did. But also I kind of didn't care? I'm not a big fan of true crime/mysteries and in retrospect, the This American Life episode had exactly as much detail as I wanted about this. If you are a fan of true crime you might appreciate this book more than me. I definitely highly recommend the This American Life episode though! ( http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/447/the-incredible-case-of-the-pi-moms )