Dennis Littrell's True Crime Companion lets the reader snuggle up to reviews of some of the more lurid, sensational and frankly unbelievable books written about how the best laid plans of idiots, degenerates, psychopaths and other criminals can go horribly wrong-or right, depending on your point of view. Littrell highlights the JonBenet Ramsey case, and in case you were in doubt, solves it. He recalls the satanic sexual abuse hysteria of the late 1980s and early 1990s and sets the perception of what happened and why straight as a laser beam. The war on drugs? He's got a take on that. Scott Peterson, Dr. Jeffrey MacDonald and other real live (but incarcerated ) American psychos? Littrell steers the reader to an appreciation of some of the best books on those sickies while making the distinction between "sociopath" and "psychopath" as clear as the DSM-IV can make it. And if that isn't enough Littrell reviews some books that demonstrate beyond a shadow of a doubt that the judicial system itself is in dire need of repair."