Kevin Pierce does fine narrating this book. He does a lot of true crime narration and sounds pretty much the same as usual in this audiobook. The book, itself, is full of lurid details about the many, many homosexual relationships of the murderer, Eli Stutzman. I think the circumstantial evidence against Stutzman is clear enough that we can fairly accept him as the murderer in at least a few of the cases in the book, and he clearly was a child abuser, but I’m wondering if it’s his overt homosexuality that really bothered the author (not to mention the Texas jury that convicted him of murder, based entirely on circumstantial evidence that the lawyers didn’t even think would work).
What I would have liked to hear was how the author did his sleuthing to uncover evidence that never came to light in the trials of Eli Stutzman. It seems like he did a really good job of finding people who knew and interacted with Stutzman but who never came forward to law enforcement because they were closeted and didn’t want to out themselves. These witnesses provide the really clear evidence of the lying and conniving that Stutzman did, and it would be interesting to know how Olsen found them.
What I really didn’t need to hear were graphic sexual details told in the most sensationalized way, nor winking asides about how the police working the case weren’t exactly spokespeople for gay rights.
If you really want to know about this story, I’d recommend reading it on paper–there were enough dates, places, and names in the book that I was often confused about where things fit into the timeline; it would have been helpful to have it on paper so that I could have gone back and figured out how things fit together.