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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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This book by John Glatt reveals the deep details of a tragic and heartbreaking story of a little boy, Garnett, and his struggle for life. This book too reveals the life of Garnett's mother, Lacey, and her struggle with a factitious disorder imposed on another, or Munchhausen by proxy. The book did occasionally repeat mundane details, and this slowed down the experience but overall this book is fantastic and incredibly sad.

Tragic, Heartbreaking.

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Gut wrenching true story told well. This book was interesting and well researched. I’ll be hugging my son tonight.

Tragic story well told

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Goes over n over the same story.
Could have easily been condensed into 3 hours

Long and drawn out

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Highly highly recommend
Well written, well narrated, true crime at its unbelievable best.

Could not put this one down.
Fascinating and never tedious.
If you find true crime fascinating you will need to listen to this one!!!

Unbelievable

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I really enjoyed this book overall. I already knew of the case, but living in Australia and only being 17 at the time I didn’t follow closely to all the reporting. Hearing all the social media postings from Lacey was unnerving and I don’t understand how her family didn’t intervene, particularly when she would claim other children as her own. How did she hide that from everyone?

One criticism I have about the book is the repetitiveness. It starts with the story being told of Garnetts life growing up and his multiple hospital trips and social media postings. When it gets to the trial, 99% of the medical history and a lot of the story (particularly about his last hospital stay) is almost repeated word for word (we hear the “bat out of hell” reference 3 times in the last 1/3 of the book). I understand the whole concept of a trial, but it just seemed to be telling us the exact things we had just heard in previous chapters.

I’m particularly fascinated with Munchausen by proxy and the fact that Lacey didn’t only make her own child sick, but also the children she cared for. She constantly claimed other people’s children as her own, she was clearly desperate for a child, and when she got one she did nothing but torture him. She claims in the interview at the end “why would I do it in hospital when I’m being videoed” and that’s the exact question I had. She dodged repercussions for so long despite numerous doctors suspecting munchausen by proxy, yet she is stupid enough to harm him on film? Clearly she isn’t as smart as I thought she was.

I hope sweet Garnett is playing happily in heaven and at peace knowing his pathetic excuse of a mother can never hurt him again.

Heartbreaking

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