This book has received two National Finalist Awards for True Crime since its publication, including one Silver (second place)True Crime Award.It was also a Finalist in the Colorado Best Book Award for Nonfiction.Verification links for the awardsare at: wehaveyourdaughter.net The book was first on Amazon e-book sales in September/October 2016 when first published.
InWe Have Your Daughter:The Unsolved Murder of JonBent Ramsey Twenty Years Later,Emmy Award-winning investigative journalist Paula Woodward offers an unprecedented insider perspective on the twentieth anniversary of one of the most heinous, sensationalized, unsolved crimes in American history.
Here for the first time, Woodward publishes exclusive police reports from the JB Murder Book Index which no other media have obtained.She examines conversations and information from all sides of those involved in the case. She documents media errors that led to many urban myths . She shares information compiled during the twenty years she reported on the murder, including private conversations with law enforcement individuals directly involved in the case, their thoughts and dissections of what went wrong and right, and who they now believe is the killer.
Woodward has included drawings by JonBent, letters from her teachers, and photographs that show a normal, happy six-year-old whose life was cut short in such a horrible manner. She shares portions of John Ramsey's private journal,where he wrote of his torment and grief immediately after his daughter'smurder. And she recounts personal conversations with JonBent's mother prior to her death from cancer in 2006. JonBent's brother Burke talks publiclyabout his sister's death and how it affected the family and his life.
We have Your Daughter is an extraordinary work of journalism, twenty years in the making. It depicts a family under siege with their guilt or innocence still openly questioned. This book allows readers to decide in this heartbreaking story - was it Ramsey or an unknown intruder?
