Hooked Up for Murder

How can you go to a party with people and by the end of the night you are dead? Kids today just have no morals. Take what I can get However I can get it. That is how it seems to me. Shame on them. A life lost and a decent nice looking guy gone because kids are cruel.

Hooked Up for Murder is probably Mladinich and Benson's best book yet. It captures all the elements of the presonalities involved, including not only the victim and the slayer(s), but also the families involved in this horrendous crime. Only someone with the authors' familiarity with investigating serious crimes could put this book together in the fine manner it was written. Again hats off to a truly professional piece of writing.

The recipe for murder: two weasly, wannabe gangstas from the city and one buff, All-American good guy from the suburbs. Then, to the pot, throw in a pretty girl. The reader smells tragedy brewing, senses horror coming. It's laid out plain and simple, chapter by chapter, by two very skillful authors. This is a riveting tale because it's so real. The depiction of these "wangstas", the poor choices of youth, and the portrayal of "the long arm of the law" is right on. This wonderful book should be mandatory reading for certain high school students prone to poor choices, and all other readers simply seeking a great read.

I remember the case of Mark Steven Fisher very well. It was a shocking crime because it was senseless and waste of human life and on the other hand, it could have been all prevented. I don't blame the authors who I believe do their best to keeping this book an easy read. Maybe it should be read by young adults to know what not to do. Ditmas Park section of Brooklyn is not normally plagued by such gang-related crimes like murder, drugs, and violence. Ditmas Park is an ideal section of Brooklyn which is primarily a draw for New Yorkers who wanted both city and country life. Sadly, Mark Fisher who grew up in rural section of New Jersey known as Sussex County where you have the highest point of a mountain. He was a college student and football player. He was the love of his parent's life along with his older brother and younger sister, Alexis. He was raised in a loving family who still mourns his loss. The authors do convey the tragedy of Mark's murder upon the reader and making you ask what might have been for this young man. They do have too many fake names and they inform you of that when you first meet the character in the book. Of course, they want their privacy and I don't blame them. I didn't understand why these young men, Anthony Russo, and John Giuca, do such a horrendous crime as killing an innocent man. Imagine if they had just abandoned Mark on the lawn rather than shooting him five times. I wish the Fisher family well because they are experiencing the hardest loss. I still remember the case on television because I live in New Jersey and all the major local stations were covering this brutal, needless murder of once a promising young man. Maybe this book can teach other young people to be a little smarter, more mature, and wiser about their decisions in the first place. You can't blame Mark and I don't. He was doing what other guys his age did. His killers just didn't have the mercy to let him go alive. Why? Why? Why? Why? Why? I wrote it 5 times to show how many times that he was shot for no other reason that they just didn't like them. Now two young men's lives are forever changed as everybody involved in Mark's death.

It could have been the plot for a teen sit-com, "I'll throw a house party while my parents are away." But this familiar set-up ended in tragedy with the murder of 19-year old Mark Fisher, a college student who was shot down like a dog as the kids partied. No witnesses came forward. This compelling book serves as a testament to good police work and legal wrangling as the authorities, using classic investigative techniques as well as the power of the grand jury, bust the monsters who thought they were going to get away with a cold-blooded slaughter.