The FBI Killer
by Aphrodite Jones
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Author: Aphrodite JonesEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1992-09-01
ISBN: 0786010398
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Pinnacle
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Book Review: A 'TRUE' True Crime Book
Summary: 5 Stars
Often in true crime, we find that the victim (and even sometimes the suspect) is made out to a sympathetic soul who others are shocked wound up in a homicide situation. Not in the case in this extremely well written book by Aphrodite Jones about FBI Agent Mark Putnam who killed his pregnant mistress, Susan Smith, when she began pressuring him to support his child that she was carrying either by support payments are divorcing his wife, Kathy, and marrying her.
Putnam eventually confessed to the crime after failing a polygraph administered by the FBI. However, he told a 'sweet and endearing' version of how his 'accidentally' killed his mistress. Unfortunately, Pike County officials let him enter his plea and confession before forensics were completed and Putnam was sentenced to sixteen years; not even in a state penitentary but in a Federal medical center.
Jones provides a clear, concise, yet unopinionated, account of the politics played in closing the books on Susan Smith's case; just a poor girl from the hills of Kentucky, who was well known to use and sell drugs and defraud the welfare system. Kentucky and FBI officials make it clear that Smith just wasn't worth Putnam serving a life sentence. Quite frankly, I had the feeling that, given the opportunity, Putnam would have walked away a free man if not for his confession.
This is truly one of the best true crime books I have read. Everyone in this book is portrayed just as they are; readers are not given the 'airbrushed' version created by many authors, especially of law enforcement officials.
If you enjoy reading the truth, irregardless of it's ugliness, check out The FBI Killer. You will not be disappointed.
Summary of The FBI Killer
Dirt poor, divorced, the mother of two young children, Susan Daniels Smith, 27, prayed for a hand-some Prince Charming who would take her away from the squalor of her rural Kentucky community to live in romance and luxury. When a good-looking, big city FBI agent named Mark Putnam entered her life, Susan thought her prayers had been answered. She was dead wrong. Their relationship began when Susan agreed to be Putnam's paid informant in an investigation of her ex-husband's criminal friends, then quickly grew into an illicit affair that consumed their lives for nearly two years - until she became pregnant and threatened to expose Putnam, ruining his career and his marriage. On June 8, 1989, Putnam took her for a drive into the hills to discuss her demands of marriage. She was never heard from again.Murder & Mayhem Books
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