Book Review: "The Babysitter" By by Liza Rodman and Jennifer Jordan

It's the 60's a time of love, lust, drugs, peace, and crime galore.

Let's not lose sight of the fact that when women disappeared during this time they weren't exactly top priority.

Now, we shall add to this mental cognitive comparison the fact that this handyman aka Babysitter known as Tony was quite the character. He was a loose cannon, an odd ball, a loner, a wild card, a nutcase and that's just some ideas that might come to mind. There's something wrong with that boy was a common phrase and yes, Cecelia, the duty falls upon your shoulders as the mother- she had to have known seeing the dead body in the bathtub and chose to ignore and simply mention to the effect to clean it up.

I mean seriously, which this much activity surrounding this supposed and alleged narcissist who was diagnosed during the time of trial to be possible schizo with sexual id confusion by medical professions should be the sign that something needed to be done.

As the story goes this Tony guy was often seen biting his nails to the quick, scratching his ear from anxiety, and acting out against others after high on drugs like LCD and amphetamines.
In addition, he had numerous failed relationships with women, a trail of destruction, was arrested for failure to pay child support for support of his wife and kids, and had std's that wreaked havoc on his health ie. gastritis and urethritis along with bouts of paranoia.
Cemetery visits is not someplace many of us go to simply hang out in the dark.

Spousal rape was also an issue after he himself was sexually abused as a child allegedly based on the reports.

We sadly, live in a world in which we often care more about the perpetrator than we do the victims of such crimes. The rights of one overtake the rights of those that were taken away by brutal force.

As a survivor of domestic violence there's plenty in here that burned my tail as they say here in Northeastern Pennsylvania.

The fact that this person was known to be violent, was abusive, was a messed up man who never received the treatment he so desperately needed when others knew this about him is frightening and alarming.

We cannot continue to excuse this behavior away. We cannot say he's a good guy when he's out there dismembering woman and tossing their bodies in shallow graves in the woods.
When will we as a society understand that we shouldn't have women wait till they are killed before the criminal justice system begins protecting them with protection from abuse orders.
When will we as a society realize that these individuals are mentally ill and need help not incarceration.

Surely, he was lucky to have died via 'suicide' as suicide was the claim rather than homicide but many wonder if he wasn't killed because of his crimes and shortly after his own cellmate was killed.

I'm a person who survived a malignant narcissist. I married into what I knew all my life. My children and I have suffered the consequences of those decisions.

Sadly, we have a court system that is riddled with problems from high case loads to lack of funding and insight into these personality trait disorders. Courts are not equipped to handle these specific situations that require extensive research and knowledge.

The discussion at the end of this novel about these ongoing issues into the minds of these serial killers for study has to continue and be extended further.

Until this happens, this recidivism rate and the likelihood that there'll be increased and escalated abuse and crime will only continue.