The Missing Girls by Linda O'Neal, et al
Somewhere among all the egotistical blather of Linda O’Neal and her whipped husband, Philip Tennyson, there is a true crime story contained within The Missing Girls; that of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis who made national headlines when they disappeared from their Oregon City homes two months apart.
It was later determined, after a disorganized, completely fumbled investigation by local law enforcement and FBI, that Ward Weaver had murdered these young teenager girls to hide his secrets of pedophilia.
Unfortunately, in this 372 page book, only about half of those pages are dedicated to the story. The remainder is non-stop bragging by O’Neal about her husband, his toys, her meetings with friends, or her mother’s onset of Alzhemiers.
Not to mention the times that Linda O’Neal attempts to show us what a wonderful person she is by being so supportive of Lori Pond, Ashley’s mother, when the rest of the world can see that this woman should be called “Mother” only because she gave birth, not by her child-rearing skills by far.
Lastly, O’Neals boasting about how she led the FBI to Weaver is a farce.
It was Weaver’s own actions when he attempted to rape his son’s girlfriend that led the FBI and local law enforcement to take a harder look at him as a suspect in the girls’ disappearances.
O’Neal can boast all she wants, but it’s an outright lie. In my opinion, simply an attempt to boost business for her private investigations business.
I would not recommend this book for anyone unless you like a story, within a story, within a story that has no basis for being tied into one another.
I’d rather read a Harlequin Romance {shudder} than to read another book like this!
