This is an audiobook.

This is one of those infurating stories.

Makes you mad the man got away with murder, murdering his family no less!

Yet, by the end of the story you wonder did God make him pay for this by all the suffering the man had later in life?

Hi JustJen! I received Facing the Wind yesterday. I'm thrilled you initiated this trade. It's my kind of true crime story. Can't wait to listen.

These tapes came in handy at a time when I needed to listen rather than read for a while. Reading about a parent who murders his or her own children is never easy. And letting someone off on an insanity plea doesn't fly anymore. But unfortunately, the mentally ill CAN be psychotic and do terrible things because their brain gets as sick as a pancreas or liver, mental illness IS a brain disorder that we don't fully understand yet, and Bob Rowe proved that treatment can be effective if adhered to. Until we know more about the way the brain works, I'm afraid that this subject is going to continue to be a gray area for me, and for anyone who has known the heartbreak of having friends and loved ones battle this horrible illness.
This book moved slowly and unevenly and I found myself missing a good old Ann Rule true crime story. The author is to be commended for the vast amount of research that went into it, but I felt that, like a lot of good writers, she got bogged down in it. But it still educated me on the heartbreak and unbearable stresses that parents of severely handicapped children go through. What is amazing is that this kind of thing doesn't happen more often in familes who face these overwhelming problems.