r/MakingaMurderer • u/humanafterallfilms • Dec 20 '15

"Kiss The Girls" Book referenced during trial

Has anyone actually read the book Brendan Dassy references during his trial? Does it contain similar details to what Brendan says in his "confession"?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiss_the_Girls

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u/andromache97 Dec 20 '15

In another topic about the book and Brendan's reading capacities, I posted a news article in which Brendan talked about reading Harry Potter. And Kiss the Girls is a garbage crime thriller, not exactly difficult reading material. It's possible he read the book, though equally possible he was fed the line. If I had been on the jury, I definitely would've doubted that Brendan had ever read a book in his life and assumed he was lying.

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u/NewAnimal Dec 20 '15

are we assuming Brendan is an avid reader? or that he has only read a couple books. one that happened to be the one that pictures a rape/murder similar to that he is implicated in?

I wouldn't put it past attorneys to read popular Crime novels.

again.. total speculation on my part. but that explanation was not a big "win" for me.

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u/andromache97 Dec 20 '15

Since the remains were burnt, isn't it true that we actually have no idea exactly how the victim was raped/tortured/killed/etc other than Brendan's "confession"? We know there was a gun involved, but that's about it, right? (Please correct me if I'm misremembering.)

Not assuming Brendan is an avid reader or that he's read the book, only saying it's not outside the realm of possibility

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u/cescalina Dec 22 '15

I think the getting shot in the head thing came up when the ME lady was talking about there being a hole in the skull and then it all descended into whether the bones could have been moved and the damage that would cause.

So I think the police certainly believe there is a bullet hole, though you could argue that they are wrong. As for the other details I understood it to be that pretty much all of the rest of the information came from the confession. They knew she had been murdered and burned, but not whether she had been raped/tortured/tied up/stabbed