Ice and Bone: Tracking an Alaskan Serial Killer

For some reason(s) I can't even pinpoint, this book was just okay for me. Although I have read several true crime books in times past, this one just didn't compel me to want to read further until completion -- although I did finish it. I found it "draggy" or slow moving. However it does appear that the author did a good amount of research on his subjects including plenty of interviews. I also can appreciate that the victims were remembered throughout this book and treated respectfully. A note to Daisy if she ever sees this: Please don't blame yourself for the adoption and thus for Della's death! You made the best decision for Della at the time. Deep down I believe SHE knew that but every child longs to be with their mom and she was no different. You did the best you could and we ALL have said things during times of high emotion that we wish we hadn't. I'm guessing Della was no different! Daisy you couldn't control what Joshua Wade did so perhaps on some level, blaming yourself (the only person we CAN control is ourselves) was/is easier. But make no mistake, your Della is dead because of JW's choices NOT YOUR choice years ago! God bless you! Although this book wasn't what I would call bad, it just isn't for me.

Tracking an Alaskan Serial Killerin September of 2000, 33-year-old Della Brown was found sexually assaulted and beaten to death inside a filthy, abandoned shed in seedy part of Anchorage, Alaska. Joshua Wade was arrested after bragging to his friends and taking some of them to see Della in the abandon dwelling he had killed her in.Sadly, though after a three-month trial, Joshua Wade would walk free. Due to the insufficient evidence and the work the defense attorneys put forward. Sadly, the prosecutor dropped out and the 2 inexperienced prosecutors who had never tried a murder trial and did not have the resources to get up to speed found through no fault of their own that the better case by the defense team got Wade freedom and a pass to kill again.In 2007, when Wade kidnapped a well-loved nurse psychologist from her home and then executed her in the remote wilderness of Wasilla. She was his next door neighbor a psychiatric nurse who under different circumstances maybe could have helped Wade. Mindy was in the wrong place at the wrong time. Wade broke into Mindy’s home raped her and took her from her house at gun point then drove about an hour in her car and killed her executioner stile by getting her to kneel down, after taking her from the car and promising to set her free but instead put a bullet in his gun and shot her.Wade had a very cocky attitude when arrested and when the police charged him with two counts of bank fraud, aggravated identity theft … and access-device fraud,” Wade ears pricked up and he said what’s that. Perpetrators of crime weren’t familiar with the term access device fraud. It just means that you used an ATM card of somebody that’s not yourself … and that person did not give you permission to do so.Agent Thoreson one of the police who interview Wade said. “We actually talked to Mindy, you know.” A devious smirk came over Wade’s face. If there was any doubt before that moment that Wade had killed Mindy Schloss, for either Agent Thoreson or Detective Perrenoud, it evaporated with one facial expression. His eyes said it all You couldn’t have talked to her, because I killed her.After a lengthy trial Wade confessed and was found guilty of both murders. It turns out he had committed quite a few other murders but the police have not charged him with them. At least up to 6 more people where probably killed by Wade maybe more.It is a chilling account of one sick twisted individual which no amount of rehabilitation would work. Lethal injection is to good for him and for the family’s affected at least knowing he is behind bars never to kill again until he dies but having been put in isolation and 10 years going by he will have plenty of time to reflect on what he is missing out on in the outside world. life I hope is hell for him in his cell 23 hours a day.To the families of his victims my heart goes out to you all.You will not be disappointed in the story about the killings in Alaska. Congratulations Monte Francis this is a well written book, with the author captivating you from the beginning A well-researched book on Joshua Wade.

Great read, the author is very good but he does repeat some reports and statements over and over at nauseam throughout the book. It’s like he doesn’t think we remembered them in previous chapters. We true crime buffs remember everything!! I guess it did make his book bigger though.

Francis writes about Joshua Wade, a serial killer in Alaska, in Ice and Bone: Tracking An Alaskan Serial Killer. Wade killed six women, mostly Native Alaskan, in the summer of 2003. Wade went on trial, and won, then started a new trek of killing. He was really the shadow, that evaded investigators and even conviction. Francis writes the story well, telling the details of Wade's destruction of life and justice. It's a very chilling story, and until I read this book, I hadn't heard of this particular serial killer. The justice system failed the victims he went on trial for and gave him more victims as he walked away. These kills were literally cold-blooded kills, without mercy. A very shocking story. Ice and Bone: Tracking An Alaskan Serial Killer is a definite recommendation by Amy's Bookshelf Reviews. I look forward to reading many more stories by this author.

I am oftentimes leery to read a true crime book by an author of which I am not familiar, but, the price was right (Book Bub) and the case sounded interesting so I purchased Ice and Bone for my Kindle. Monte Francis did a very nice job writing this book. He went into detail but was not repetitive (as is often the case in these true crime books). He conducted a lot of interviews with the families and the friends of the victims, as well as the prosecuting lawyers, and he was sensitive and compassionate in the way he shared their "voices." The actual murders and court cases take up about 75% of the book, and then Francis really gets to the heart of the case, which is how Joshua Wade got away with murder to only murder again. I was frustrated and mad at a judicial system that could allow this to happen. I wonder if the scenarios would have been the same if the order of these murders would have been reversed? Discrimination plays a role here. I recommend this book if you are interested in true crime cases.

This is a well written true account about a serial murderer in Alaska who caused big problems for residents. It kept my interest very well. This Joshua Wads is one twisted individual who killed in the most gruesome manner. It was thorough in all of the people interviewed, and I liked the follow up the author did after the case.

I really quite enjoyed this book, I'd read more from this author in the future. I recommend it to anyone.

Thorough, reasonably well-written, but like so many books in the limited library that is Kindle, needs a huge amount of editing.

Good book.

Interesting read

Full of invented dialogue, and a novelized approach, which are inappropriate to the seriousness of the case being covered. The first rule of journalism is 'if all the facts are not known do not make them up.'