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Erased: Missing Women, Murdered Wives Review
"Erased combines the scholarly wisdom of The Mask of Sanity and the true-life horror of In Cold Blood. Marilee Strong has discovered--and understands--the most insidious and perhaps most evil form of spousal killing" is the judgment of the high profile forensic psychologist J. Reid Meloy from UC San Diego. That's part of what gives this book its power--combining both powerful case stories worthy of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, with insights and observations that put the vivid stories of homicide and deviousness in perspective. (The Mask of Sanity is a classic in the field, but out of print. The modern version is Without Conscience: The Disturbing World of the Psychopaths Among Us.Instead of just news stories which never seem to stop about missing women, murdered women, and the men who are "persons of interest" if not actually charged--Hans Reiser, Drew Peterson, Scott Peterson, Michael White, Rae Carruth, Robert Durst and dozens more--Marilee Strong gives us the hope that something can be known about men who murder their wives and do it with planning and utter coldness. Finally, the crime has been given a name, "eraser killing."
But it is really the author's compassion for the victims of these crimes that makes this book a landmark. Erased is not a book that pretends to be "objective" about the crime of killing women and Strong's passion and concern is what makes it a wonderful read for some (and, sadly, makes it a little uncomfortable for those few who are uneasy about extending compassion.)
There are many, many more victims of these killings than any statistic or long list of dead and missing women might indicate, as bad as that is. What Strong understands is that families, friends, whole communities are frozen and unable to experience grieving as a process because they are blocked from having the simple, terrible facts: Is my daughter/friend/relative/mom dead, or alive? Where is she? What exactly happened to her? Why did you do this?
Grieving and healing cannot happen, cannot begin when so many people are so cruelly tortured by being kept endlessly on edge, endlessly in "search" mode, jumping at every phone call, hoping against hope that the woman who is "missing" will finally move out of that purgatory.
This book itself provides hope, through the author's own compassion and understanding, and through a public statement that, yes, there is a problem, a dilemma that has an impact on us as a community. We have a responsibility especially when there are children involved--whether they are little children to whom the missing woman was a teacher (Laci Peterson), or to whom she was mother (many, many, many).
As someone who once stood in the quiet yard of the Peterson house in Modesto when Laci Rocha Peterson was "only" a missing, pregnant woman, I saw, and shed tears with the hundreds of people who came on their own, quietly, solemnly placing flowers, cards drawn by little children, crosses, candles, and poems. People had driven in old cars and farm trucks and they represented every corner of that diverse farming community. If we do care as a community, then there is hope in confronting a crime so dark that it has escaped being identified.
Marilee Strong has put a name on crime that has caused so many to shed tears, and feel the pain and loss of others. Now we know, at least, that the destructive, self-absorbed personalities who perpetrate these crimes can be understood and so can their astonishingly audacious methods.
If we understand that much, we can not only share compassion as a community, we can begin to figure out how best to counter and block these eraser killers.
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