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My Sweet Angel

The True Story of Lacey Spears, the Seemingly Perfect Mother Who Murdered Her Son in Cold Blood

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My Sweet Angel

By: John Glatt
Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
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Lacey Spears made international headlines in January 2015, when she was charged with the "depraved mind" murder of her five-year-old son, Garnett. Prosecutors alleged that the 27-year-old mother had poisoned him with high concentrations of salt through his stomach tube.

To the outside world, Lacey had seemed like the perfect mother, regularly posting dramatic updates on her son's harrowing medical problems. But in reality, Lacey was a textbook case of Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy. From the time he was an infant, she deliberately made Garnett sick to elicit sympathy from medical professionals, as well as her hundreds of followers on Facebook and other social media. When a Westchester County jury found her guilty of killing Garnett in April 2015, she was sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.

Using Lacey's own never-before-seen Facebook, Twitter, and blog posts, an exclusive prison interview with Lacey herself, as well as interviews with her family and the three police investigators who broke the case, My Sweet Angel gives the definitive account of this extraordinary case that shocked the world.

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I find no issue with the story, it is incredibly sad but the author did a lot of very impressive research and explains complicated medical terminology really well.

The loss of stars is for the performance, or maybe editing? There were several times towards the end when the same section of text is repeated numerous times and some of the chapters abruptly end mid sentence.

An interesting story

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The narrator was very good but too much repetitiveness on witness statements where it felt like the chapters were doubling up. The doctors and child protection should of done so much more early in this case. How many reports and complaints are needed before someone listens. RIP Garnett!

Heartbreaking

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This was very disappointing.
Narrator not good with little expression.
For such an incredible story, this was very tedious to get through.
I did finish it but struggled greatly

Very repetitive

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Although there was a lot of investigation I found the book a little repetitive. I would still recommend the read

Thorough

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This true story by John Glatt was well written although a little repetitive at times. It amazes and angers me that so many people did nothing to stop the mother and protect her darling little boy!!
I don’t understand why so many people turned a blind eye.
Rest in peace Garnett

Heartbreaking

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