Who Killed My Daughter Author:Lois Duncan On July 16, 1989, Lois Duncan's daughter was chased down and shot to death in Albuquerque, New Mexico. After the police abandoned all leads, Duncan refused to give up her search for the truth. In this tragic memoir and investigation, Lois Duncan searches for clues to the murder of her youngest child, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette. Dunca... more »n begins to suspect that the official police investigation of Kaitlyn's murder is inadequate when detectives ignore her daughter's accidental connection to organized crime in Albuquerque. When Duncan loses faith in the system, she reaches out to anyone that can help, including private investigators, journalists, and even a psychic. Written to inspire other families who have lost loved ones to unsolved crimes, Who Killed My Daughter' is a powerful testament to the tenacity of a mother's love.« less
This book gives meaning to the quote "Truth is stranger then Fiction". Ms. Duncan did an excellent job sharing her feelings with her fans about what happened to her daughter.
This is the story of mother's journey grieving her daughter's death. I was never sure if it was supposed to be a story about what happened, an investigation into what happened, a case against the police who followed up on the case or thoughts on spirituality. It did some of all of these, but none really well. And when it was done I wanted more closure.
With a promise to see her family later, eighteen-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette rushed out the door into the balmy midsummer evening. Little did Kaitlyn's mother, Lois Duncan realize that those were the last words she would ever hear her daughter speak. On July 16, 1989, Kaitlyn was shot to death as she drove home from a friend's house along a deserted strip of New Mexico highway. The police concluded that it was a random shooting - even though it showed all the earmarks of a professional hit...
Kaitlyn's brutal murder left her family broken-hearted and grieving, and her mother pondering a thousand unanswered questions. Who would put out a contract on a beautiful young honor student? Was it grief that made Kaitlyn's Vietnamese lover try to take his own life? - Or was it not an attempted suicide at all?
Lois Duncan's search for answers would eventually lead her into the seamy underworld of Vietnamese gangs that stretched across three states. It would lead her to an extraordinary psychic and to a courageous journalist determined to expose the devastating truth. And it would send her on a soul-numbing odyssey into Kaitlyn's shocking double life as she desperately sought justice for the daughter she would always love...even in the face of shattering betrayal and threats to her own life.
Today, Lois Duncan's search for her daughter's killer continues. She will never give up. The best-selling young adult novelist has made finding her daughter's killer her life's mission. After all, a mother's blood vow to her deceased daughter is paramount.
I thought this was a truly heartrending book. I completely sympathized with Ms. Duncan's burning desire to discover the entire devastating truth behind her daughter's still unsolved murder. As an author of young adult suspense novels, Ms. Duncan proves that sometimes the most terrifying and suspenseful events are the ones that actually happen.
Understandably, this was perhaps the most difficult book for Lois Duncan to write, because this is a story that involves herself and her family. Her relentless search for justice for Kaitlyn is a quality for which I admire her greatly. I was certainly aware that Ms. Duncan was an author of young adult novels (Mareena read quite a lot of her novels while she was in high school), but I never realized that her youngest daughter was actually murdered, and that Kaitlyn Arquette's murder was still unsolved to this day.
Despite feeling tremendous sympathy for Lois Duncan and her family for their daughter's murder, I must also admit to feeling slightly angry at Kaitlyn herself. She was eighteen-years-old and got involved in an impossibly dangerous situation - one that ultimately cost her her life. While it is certainly true that young people will do anything for love - and teenagers can and do make mistakes - what Kaitlyn did subsequently endangered her entire family.
This book was certainly well-wriitten, but it was so convoluted that I had trouble sorting out the plot of the murder. I give Who Killed my Daughter? by Lois Duncan an A!
This is the story of mother's journey grieving her daughter's death. I was never sure if it was supposed to be a story about what happened, an investigation into what happened, a case against the police who followed up on the case or thoughts on spirituality. It did some of all of these, but none really well. And when it was done I wanted more closure.
This is the story of mother's journey grieving her daughter's death. I was never sure if it was supposed to be a story about what happened, an investigation into what happened, a case against the police who followed up on the case or thoughts on spirituality. It did some of all of these, but none really well. And when it was done I wanted more closure.
This is the story of mother's journey grieving her daughter's death. I was never sure if it was supposed to be a story about what happened, an investigation into what happened, a case against the police who followed up on the case or thoughts on spirituality. It did some of all of these, but none really well. And when it was done I wanted more closure.
This is the story of mother's journey grieving her daughter's death. I was never sure if it was supposed to be a story about what happened, an investigation into what happened, a case against the police who followed up on the case or thoughts on spirituality. It did some of all of these, but none really well. And when it was done I wanted more closure.
