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Old 10-05-2016, 03:22 PM   #2406
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$2.98 Whispersync Deal about the Small Town Raping/Molesting Doctor.

The ratings (4 stars at Amazon; 4.1 at Audible) are a little lower than I like in a book that I post, but they have a good distribution--there is no unusual amount of "1's," "2's," or "3's."

Title: Doc: The Rape of the Town of Lovell.
Genre: Non-Fiction (True Crime/Pathology/Religion).
Author(s): Jack Olsen.
Price: $2.98 ($0.99 ebook (marked down) + $1.99 Whispersync audio).
Regular Price of Audio, by Itself, at Audible: $21.95 (1 credit).
Ebook Rating/Number of Reviews: 4.0 stars/219 reviews (Amazon).
Audio Rating/Number of Ratings: 4.1/1052 ratings.
Pages/Audio Length: 567/16 hours and 11 minutes.
Narrator(s): Kevin Pierce.
Audible URL: http://www.audible.com/pd/Nonfiction...ok/B00SADGSHI/.
Amazon URL (you can get the whole Whispersync deal here): https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00P9J34QY.
Comments: The book is the #1 seller in three categories in the regular Amazon book store.
Book Description (Amazon):
Updated ebook file 12/16/2014

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With a new introduction by bestselling true crime author Ron Franscell.

For twenty-five years, the trusted family doctor in a small Wyoming town had been raping and molesting the women and children who most relied on him. Mostly Mormons, the naive victims sometimes realized on their wedding nights the truth about what had happened in Dr. Story's office.

In riveting detail, veteran crime writer Jack Olsen tells the searing story of a small group of courageous women who decided to bring a doctor to justice — and unearthed a legacy of pain and anger that would divide their families, their neighbors, and an entire town Publishers Weekly: This masterful book by the author of Son, as much a searching sociological study as a true-crime narrative, tells what happened in Lovell when these happenings came to light: the community lost its bearings and the doctor was convicted of rape.

Kirkus: From popular true-crime veteran Olsen (Son; Cold Kill; etc.), the widely publicized case that tore a small Wyoming town apart when the local doctor was accused, then convicted, of raping patients under the guise of giving them pelvic examinations. Lowell, Wyoming, was a town divided largely along religious lines: a Mormon majority and a Baptist minority. When Dr. John Story arrived to start up a practice, he found a warm welcome: a doctor was needed and, though he was a Baptist, his strict habits (which led him to start his own, more fundamentalist church) won the respect of Mormons who flocked to him as patients. But in 1983, after years of suspicions they had tried to dismiss, two sisters came forward with accusations of rape, inspiring dozens of other women (some elderly) to at last speak up. Some victims had been silent because of the Mormon code that seemed to hold women responsible for any extramarital sex; others had taken their case to the police (and not been believed), to Church leaders (who told them to switch doctors), and to the medical association (which did nothing). The 1983 accusers were vilified by the town (even by many Mormons, some grateful for Story's medical care, others sensitive to his claim that the case was a Mormon conspiracy); some lost their jobs and businesses, but Story was eventually convicted and is now doing 15-20 years. Engrossing true drama--and a more balanced than usual picture of Mormon life and values.

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