The Prom Night Murders

Reader: Michelle Sherwin 12th grade
The Prom Night Murders
Carlton Smith
A small town Pastor his wife and two of his children are murder right in the parsonage one Saturday night. His other three children are away so he and his family are not discovered missing until the next morning when he does not show up to church. When the congregation of this small church goes to investigate just why the pastor is missing the parsonage is locked. With the locks having just been changed only one person outside the family had the keys to the house. Sounds like something that came straight out of a Nancy Drew or Hardy Boys book right? But this story is a real story that happened in a small Indiana town.
The three kids that were not home all had valid reasons not to be. The girls were each staying at a respective friends house for the night and their son was on a trip out of town after attending prom with his girlfriend the night before. But as the mystery unravels interesting facts begin to unravel from this mystery about Jeff the son of this respectable pastor and about their fragile family ties. Jeff was not happy about his step mother and step sisters who came into his life after his mother died of cancer and he and his new family move. He was also upset because he had been grounded, according to other church members from taking himself and his girlfriend to prom. His dad said that he would take them and pick them back up. He had also told his son absolutely no to the after prom trip his friends and girlfriend were going on. The morning after prom, however, the car that belonged to Jeff was gone and he was no where to be found. When the detectives came they analyzed the crime scene. They could not find any evidence as to who did it. They tracked down the three kids and brought them home as soon as possible. They continued to search for clues, but found nothing and the case went unsolved. For almost 2 decades they could not discover any evidence to prove anyone guilty. This real life bone chilling cold case comes to show that not all mysteries come from fiction books so beware and get ready to submerse yourself into the cold case come alive.

I picked this book up the week before prom because the title really caught my eye and I was interested in reading a true story mystery.
I finished this book because I was interested to find out how everything fit together.
I'd give this book to someone who like books of the mystery and suspense genre because this book feels like it could be a fiction mystery book. The writing however does get a little dull at times, but after getting past that it is a very good book.

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