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    Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder
    Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder
    Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder
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    Burned Alive: A Shocking True Story of Betrayal, Kidnapping, and Murder

    Written by Kieran Crowley

    Narrated by Danny Campbell

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    Ash Wednesday
    Beautiful, bubbly, 20-year-old Kim Antonakos was returning to her New York City apartment after a night of clubbing with a friend. A business major with wild black hair, long polished fingernails, and a new Honda her loving father had bought her, Kim took good care of herself and looked forward to a bright future. But on her way home in the early morning darkness of that Ash Wednesday, Kim was abducted—and her mysterious kidnappers would be the last people to see her alive.

    Scorching Betrayal
    As Kim's father, wealthy computer executive Tommy Antonakos, launched a widespread, feverish search for his daughter, he had no idea that her abductors were right under his nose. A cold mastermind had ordered Kim to be bound, gagged and left in the freezing basement of an abandoned house, hoping to extract ransom from her father. When the plans fell through, he and his henchman panicked, returned to the basement and doused a near-frozen Kim with gasoline, setting her on fire.

    Burned Alive
    When the fire was extinguished, all that was left of the lovely coed were her charred, lifeless remains. What would drive the kidnappers to commit such a cruel and senseless murder? How did their plans to cover their tracks result in another killing? And how were the murderers finally snared? Read all of the fascinating facts in a startling expose of extortion, murder, and ultimate justice.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateOct 2, 2018
    ISBN9781721342273
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    Kieran Crowley

    Kieran Crowley is the New York Times bestselling author of The Surgeon's Wife, Burned Alive, and Sleep My Little Dead, an award-winning reporter for the New York Post. His investigative reporting on a series of dismemberment murders of prostitutes helped lead homicide detectives to serial killer Robert Shulman, who told police after his arrest that he halted his killing spree when he read a description of himself and his car in one of Crowley's stories. Crowley has covered hundreds of trials and thousands of murders, including the assassination of John Lennon, as well as the cases of Amy Fisher, Katie Beers, the Long Island Railroad Massacre, and serial killer Joel Rifkin.

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    • 5/5
      I was spellbound listening to the hideous acts that was done on a human being.

      The court proceedings were thorough and interesting.

      The epilogue was long but it really tied up the characters lives today.

      If your a true crime junkie this book is for you.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 2/5
      This reader sounds like a bot. Too bad. Wanted to listen.

      1 person found this helpful

    • 4/5
      A good story, and I was glad to have more of the details. Author does go out of the way to pretty much blame people who weren't actually involved and has a bit of a racist slant, kind of? There are parts that seem incompletely irrelevant to the main case, and there are parts that are repetitive. On the whole, though, it's a great deep dive into the case. It focuses a lot on the "chase" so to speak.
    • 1/5
      Was relatively interested despite all the authorial imposition of thoughts and feelings overlaid on people that they could not have known, but they lost me at the first use of the word "she-male".

      Unacceptable bigotry, for no discernible purpose other than ignorance or transphobia, or both.

      The author's opinion is not worth listening to for another nine hours. I'll be removing the rest of their books from my "to be read" pile as well.
    • 4/5
      I think the Author done a great job telling this story. It didn’t ramble on with unnecessary details.
      I do need to know why the victims Father didn’t hear the voice message… it wasn’t addressed in the book…

      * The voice of the reader is HORRIBLE. Sounds like a thousand year old chain smoker, he really shouldn’t read books at all!!
    • 4/5
      As usual I find it very hard or gruesome maybe to say that a True Crime book was very good. A person lost their life! But I am going to say it.While the circumstances are beyond sad, the writing is very good. At times gory but murder is never pretty or nice. The author takes us into the mind of Kim imagining how she must have been feeling, thinking while she was tied to that chair, freezing and dying. It was heartbreaking to read.These dirtballs, so called friends, did this to her for what? MONEY! A kidnapping gone wrong, she wasn't supposed to die. Yet when there was still time to help her what do they do? Set her on fire to avoid getting caught. Yes, she was alive when they set her on fire but thank goodness she was already deep into hypothermia and past the point of feeling or knowing.It was so hard reading how her father was affected by this whole ordeal. How does a parent ever get over something like this? Justice was done, the creeps are in jail but that does not bring a daughter back to her family.Burned Alive is a very well written true crime book. I will look for more from this author.
    • 4/5
      It's amazing what human beings can do to one another. I won't comment much on the crime - which was a horrible, horrible thing - but the book itself. The writing was good - a little dry and choppy sometimes. The author could have used a wider vocabulary. It took a little while for the book to warm up, but once I was about a third of the way into it, I could barely stand to put it down. It's a very good and thorough account of a shocking crime.As I was googling for more information about the crime, I discovered two things. First, Nick Libretti died in 1999, which isn't mentioned in the epilogue (the book was published before his death). Second, Joshua Torres has a pen pal ad up on a well-known prison pen pal site, which is enough to make the stomach churn after reading this book.At any rate, this book is definitely a worthwhile read if you like true crime books.