Too Good a Girl: Remembering Olene Emberton and the Mystery of Her Death

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by Janis Thornton

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Reminiscent of “In Cold Blood,” here is the true crime story about a Midwestern girl’s unsolved murder set against a backdrop of small-town secrets and mysteries that have endured for over fifty years. In the mid ‘60s, the small, Central Indiana farm town of Tipton seemed like the safest, most serene place in the world. That changed October 16, 1965, when Olene Emberton, a quiet, 17-year-old high school student disappeared after a Saturday night date. Two days later, her nude body was found lying alongside a remote country road, her clothes neatly folded and stacked beside her. Lacking witnesses, clues, a confession, or even a cause of death, the case remains unsolved. More than 50 years later, with dogged determination, Olene's classmate, author Janis Thornton, explores the mystery. Presented as part true crime, part oral history, and part memoir, "Too Good a Girl" weaves together the strands of the tragedy that stunned a community and tore a family apart. The truth is there, but it is up to the reader to determine whose truth is “the” truth. EDITORIAL REVIEWS “In a small Indiana town, a serial killer was born. This is the story of the young woman who was almost certainly his first victim. “The killing, which occurred the year before the infamous Speck murders, was never solved. It wasn't even classified as a homicide.” — judiemon “Not quite a true-crime thriller, not quite a memoir, this book is a haunting compilation of facts and musings. A commentary on a community's loss of innocence and the ways it can either come together or fall apart.” — Sandra Miller “Well written and well researched. The author had a difficult task telling a story that needed to be told.” — Dollycas “This book is impossible to put down!” — Dixie Ihnat

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