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Then No One Can Have Her
Written by Caitlin Rother
Narrated by Callie Beaulieu
Rating: 4.5 out of 5 stars
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She thought she had married her soulmate. But when Carol Kennedy could no longer tolerate her husband's reckless womanizing and out-of-control spending, the artist, therapist and mother of two had to let him go. Just weeks after their divorce, Carol was found in her Arizona ranch home-bludgeoned to death with a golf club. Her ex, Steven DeMocker, was the prime suspect. Yet it took the authorities months to arrest him-and years to convict...
Author
Caitlin Rother
Caitlin Rother is a former journalist who worked at The San Diego Union-Tribune and the Los Angeles Daily News. She is the New York Times bestselling author or coauthor of several true crime books, including Deadly Devotion and Death on Ocean Boulevard. Find out more at CaitlinRother.com.
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Reviews for Then No One Can Have Her
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Good book. So-so narration. Lots of mispronunciations. Within one minute, narrator mispronounced “probative” and “La Jolla.”
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5Excellent, in all categories of authorship; as well as the details pertinent to this barbaric murderer, and the murder he committed.
- Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Long, long, book for a moderate story - could have used some severe editing. If you like true crime this book is worth reading but you'll have to tolerate a wandering story line and lots of tangential information. I found myself questioning : "who is the author risking about now?!?". Definitely not a "thriller" but still worth a read if you like oddball stories. Audiobook note : very good narrator, I think that's what kept me reading.
- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In July 2008 Carol Kennedy was found dead in her home. At first glance the scene looked like an accident. Upon closer inspection it was determined the scene was staged and Carol had been murdered. The main suspect was her ex-husband Steve DeMocker, but there was no clear cut evidence he did it, no ‘smoking gun’. In fact several witnesses testified he had never been abusive. But he was.Ms. Rother shows by her careful relating of events how abuse is not always physical. What I like about this book, is that through all the drama, the twists and turns and the “SMDH” moments, Ms. Rother never loses what this case is about, a woman who was brutally murdered. The detectives were committed to finding evidence of her killer and the prosecutor was committed to convicting him. Also Ms. Rother shows no bias in her writing, she is very much a just the facts writer. How she spins them into a lay-person readable format is magic, I guess. She also doesn’t insert herself into the narrative. I mention these three things because these are the things that turn me off from certain books/authors.From start to finish I was gripped by this book. At times I put it down and read something else, but when I came back to it, I was able to pick up and keep reading, I never had to skim back, it was that compelling. I recommend this book.
- Rating: 5 out of 5 stars5/5I’ve just finished reading Then No One Can Have Her , and as I have read Caitlin Rother’s books before, and loved them, this one did not disappoint, except that Carol died.What a long journey for justice in this case, and the author has documented so well, that you feel your living with these people on a daily basis. When you see pictures of this couple, you see what looks like a loving solid unit, and they called each other their soul mates. What you can’t see is Steven DeMocker sexual addiction and his multiple affairs, sometimes more than one woman at a time.We look at this story through Caitlin’s eyes and all the research and hours of investigation she put to pull out all of the facts. We feel Steven’s daughter’s pain at what has happened to their mother, and then what their father asks of them. How do you deal with the fact that your father is accused of murdering your mother? Breaks my heart.Wait until you see the lengths Steven goes to implicate another person, including putting his daughter in legal trouble, possible jail time. To say he is a “Me” person is putting it bluntly; he uses everyone, including his family, which included his parents. His retired father even had to go back to work to help pay his mounting legal fees.Has justice been served, lets hope so, nothing will ever bring Carol back, and maybe he is satisfied with that, as the book title points out. We will never know what makes a person act like Steven does, but at least he is behind bars.I received this book from the Author, and was not required to give a positive review.