Too Good a Girl: Remembering Olene Emberton and the Mystery of Her Death
In the mid-sixties, the small, midwestern farm town of Tipton, Indiana, seemed like the safest place in the world. That changed October 16, 1965, when Olene Emberton, a quiet, 17-year-old Tipton High School senior disappeared after a Saturday night date. Two days later, a farmer found her dead body alongside a remote country road, her clothes neatly folded and stacked beside her. Lacking any witnesses, clues, a confession, or even a cause of death, authorities could never solve the case. "Too Good a Girl" author Janis Thornton was one of Olene's classmates, who experienced first-hand the shock of losing a friend in such an unexpected, devastating way. "Too Good a Girl" is presented as part true crime, part oral history, and part memoir, as it weaves together the strands of the tragedy that stunned a community and tore a family apart. Today, more than fifty years later, the mystery continues to confound. And yet, the truth is there, but each reader must determine which truth is the right truth.
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Too Good a Girl: Remembering Olene Emberton and the Mystery of Her Death
In the mid-sixties, the small, midwestern farm town of Tipton, Indiana, seemed like the safest place in the world. That changed October 16, 1965, when Olene Emberton, a quiet, 17-year-old Tipton High School senior disappeared after a Saturday night date. Two days later, a farmer found her dead body alongside a remote country road, her clothes neatly folded and stacked beside her. Lacking any witnesses, clues, a confession, or even a cause of death, authorities could never solve the case. "Too Good a Girl" author Janis Thornton was one of Olene's classmates, who experienced first-hand the shock of losing a friend in such an unexpected, devastating way. "Too Good a Girl" is presented as part true crime, part oral history, and part memoir, as it weaves together the strands of the tragedy that stunned a community and tore a family apart. Today, more than fifty years later, the mystery continues to confound. And yet, the truth is there, but each reader must determine which truth is the right truth.
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ISBN-13: | 9781732763012 |
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Publisher: | Life Sentences Publishing LLC |
Publication date: | 08/04/2018 |
Pages: | 208 |
Product dimensions: | 5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d) |
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