Sorry but I have to pull the plug on this one. I was not aware this was just a podcast in script form. Amber I wouldn’t listen to and im not going to read. She fully got on my nerves. She abused her position with the Vidocq society as far as im xoncerned. This just was not for me at all.

All that you can love in a true crime book. Throughly enjoyed this one! If you're interested in podcasts and those who self investgate crimes, this is a must read!

Not really my sort of thing. I did not finish this book as the format of transcripts of the podcast was irritating.

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Accused

The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes

by Amber Hunt; Amanda Rossmann

Diversion Books

True Crime

Pub Date 18 Sep 2018


I am reviewing a copy of Accused through Diversion Books and Netgalley:


Elizabeth Andes was found stabbed, bound and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, at the time the prosecutors proclaim its an open and shut case.



In a matter of days twenty three year old Bob Young, a football player who found his twenty three year old’s College sweetheart lifeless body on their bedroom floor and was accused of her murder. To this day prosecutors still say they have the right guy despite the fact two juries and one criminal and one civil disagreed, and Bob Young walked away a free man.




Nearly four decades after Beth’s case went cold, two reporters from Cincinnati discovered Law Enforcement ignored leads that could have brought the real killers to justice.


I give Accused three out of five stars!


Happy Reading!

Forensic science and investigation practices have changed drastically since 1978 when this murder was committed and never solved. The police had one suspect but were never able to convict him. This book is based on the podcast of the crime so is written as a transcript...a different approach to writing a non-fiction book. The authors spent a great deal of time and effort to track down anyone who could contribute to the story with the goal of finally solving the mystery. Did the boyfriend kill her? He reported the discovery of her body and had plenty of reasons to want her dead, but was declared innocent by two juries. A great of newly discovered evidence and testimonies by friends and relatives leaves this reader with as many questions as the juries had. While they did not solve the crime, the authors definitely brought the crime back front and center for law enforcement's attention. A very good true crime book written from a different perspective. Not everyone will like the presentation style, but it's definitely worth reading.

This was a very interesting book. Not only did you get to read about the what was said on the podcast but also there was background information and explanations that were not in the podcast. Amer Hunt and Amanda Rossman did a great job of bring this story to the attention to the public, Being able to read the words of people that were there and involved with the case was insightful. The time that the authors invested in going back and investigating the case and looking at things that were overlooked is amazing. Definitely a good read for anyone interested in criminal justice, police work, and investigation of murders.

A great psychological suspense story. A page turner. I couldn't predict what was gonna happen and I also couldn't put it down. Book some time for this. Highly recommend!

Thankyou to NetGalley, Diversion Books and the authors, Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossman, for the opportunity to read a digital copy of Accused in exchange for an honest, unbiased opinion.
I thought this book was well researched and written. It certainly kept me interested to the end. 3.5 stars
A good read for true crime enthusiasts.

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1 Star

Sadly, this book had a lot of potential for being a great true crime read. The author chose a format that left the book confusing and it just had a sloppy feel to it. I felt like there were aspects of reading a transcript of a podcast that had no rhyme or reason to it and it lost me immediately. I found myself doing a lot of skimming just to get through the book.

Thank you to Diversion and Netgalley for the opportunity to review.

That kind of book is always so interesting to me. I tought it was very good, The narrator did an amzing job at explaining everything. Very sordid story.

The sad reality is that Elizabeth Andes' murder will remain unsolved because a number of key suspects were either not checked, never considered, nor rounded up and no credible evidence was presented against the man - Bob Young, the boyfriend - who found her dead and who may have had his own reason to bump her off. The mode of her death is a crime of passion / deeply personal / hateful anger.

However, this podcast transcript.reads like a a reporter trying to find needle in a haystack, putting blame on people who are either dead or cannot defend themselves against charges of 'suspicious activity,' ''crazy antics,; ''mental issues,'probable gay stalker' - all of which seems clumsy and ill-willed. Detectives should be detectives and journalists should be journalists - if only people did their job, and did it well.

I really, really struggled with this book. This saddens me as I was looking forward to it. After, having recently read Sadie in the format of a podcast, I was interested in the fact that this book was a podcast as well. Yet, in this case, it did not work. It read kind of clunky. Plus, I was really pissed off by the fact that the authorities were focused on just the boyfriend. Once, they had him, it was like they didn't want to hear or consider any other theories; even if the evidence was not crystal clear.

After feeling like I was stopping and going while reading this book and only getting a third of the way. Which by the way took me almost a month to get this far into the book, I was done with the book and put it down for good.

Being a lover of true crime I really liked this book. It was well researched but being written from a podcast made it very distracting. I thankyou for the opportunity to read it.

I struggled initially with the writing style, but it got easier when I imagined them "speaking out loud" instead of just reading the words.
Its a unique way of putting a book out - the transcripts of podcasts. The first time I've encountered a book like this.
Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann look at a murder case from December 1978 that the police just don't seem interested in trying to solve as the initial suspect was acquitted. They follow up all initial leads, re-interview witnesses and suspects, battle bureaucracy and even turn up things that the police missed back in 1978.
I found their writing/investigation well-researched and the various theories and opinions they propose are believable.
One can only hope that after almost 40 years, some kind of justice can finally be achieved for Elizabeth Andes and her family and loved ones.

"When Elizabeth Andes was found bound, stabbed, and strangled in her Ohio apartment in 1978, police and prosecutors decided within hours it was an open-and-shut case."

I received #Accused free from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. The book is comprised of transcripts from a podcast the authors did based on the murder, and includes interviews with some key players in the victim's life, as well as a few of the investigators who actually agreed to talk about the case. Unfortunately this wasn't many, as all the investigators thought they knew who had murdered Elizabeth right away. They were disgusted when not one, but TWO separate juries found the suspect not guilty. The case soon went cold. When Amber & Amanda decide to dive into the case, they realized there were multiple other potential subjects. However, none of them can ever be tested against forensic evidence, as it has all somehow managed to vanish... I enjoyed reading this one, though it is sad that Elizabeth's family may never have the answers & closure they so desperately desire (and deserve). 3.5🌟

I would like to thank EverAfter Romance Publishing for this partnership.

I love these kinds of books so when I saw the demand on netgalley I jumped at the chance.

This book is written by four hands and we see that there has been some research done with the photos, letters, evidence attached.

It tells the story of Elizabeth who was found dead: tied up and strangled in her apartment in 1978. A few days later his lover Bob is accused of the murder. Except he's going to be acquitted. This case was closed until forty years later, the two journalists reopened the investigation and will discover leads that had not been investigated at the time.

I loved this book based on a true story where the authors' work was remarkable. I immediately hooked on the captivating, moving story filled with suspense and twists and turns. Want to have it in paper format now.

I found this to be a fascinating true crime book based on a podcast about the cold case murder of Elizabeth Andes that was being reinvestigated by journalists Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossman. Andes was 23 and just days after graduating from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio when she was found murdered in her apartment on December 28th, 1978. Her boyfriend, Bob Young, had come home and found her in the darkened apartment under an overturned dresser. She was bloody and had no pulse. The phone had been disconnected in anticipation of moving, so he ran to other apartments trying to find someone home. With it being a holiday break most students were away, and he had to run to another building before he found someone to use a phone to call police.

The police were quickly suspicious of boyfriend Bob, and after taking him in for questioning, despite his cooperation, allowing police to take hair samples, prints, etc. and repeated statements without asking for a lawyer, and even consenting to going to another town to take two polygraphs, they started coming down on him with suspicions and accusing him. After 15 hours of questioning, they got him to break and “confess”. Once he had some time to think alone quietly, he realized what a mistake he’d made, and he quickly recanted the confession and stuck to his claim of innocence thereafter. Once he was finally allowed to speak with his parents again, they got him a lawyer.

The police never looked at anyone else, despite there being several very good suspects, even after Bob Young was acquitted in a criminal trial, and again later in a civil trial brought by the parents of Beth Andes on the advice of their lawyer.

The case just lay dormant for nearly 40 years until these two journalists took a look into it after the family of Beth Andes kept trying to get the police interested repeatedly with no result. Why they pursued this story:

<strong>There are a lot of investigations out there – some with podcasts even – examining whether people were wrongly convicted of terrible crimes. This isn’t one of those. This is an investigation of the aftermath of an innocent verdict. How law enforcement -- so sure that they had the right man despite two juries saying they didn’t –  gave up looking for the person who strangled and stabbed Elizabeth Andes, a young woman in a college town. It wasn’t that there weren’t other people to look at. There were plenty. But no one bothered.

Thirty-seven years later, we did. If you have information you’d like to share with the Oxford Police Department about the death of Elizabeth Andes, call the department’s tip line at 513-524-5268 or email crimetips@cityofoxford.org.
To reach out to The Enquirer about this project, email accused@enquirer.com.</strong>

My thanks for the advance electronic copy that was provided by NetGalley, authors Amber Hunt & Amanda Rossman for my fair review.

Diversion Books
Pub: Sept. 18th, 2018

Accused tells the true life murder story of Elizabeth Andes. It happened 40 years ago and it is still unsolved. It was ultimately a sad story about a life cut short too early. It is written in an engaging style and you keep wanting to solve this mystery, you want to give peace to the family and friends of Beth.
I did find it a bit difficult to read in the style it was written (a lot of dialogue from the podcast it bases on) and the maps/articles were not kindle friendly.

True crime is sometimes hard to read. The story, the circumstances all seems a bit unreal, but you know that this actually happened. Zodiac, The Golden State Killer - both have been written about and both scare the pants off me.

Amber Hunt and Amanda Rossmann are journalists with the The Cincinnati Enquirer and have written Accused: The Unsolved Murder of Elizabeth Andes exploring the 40 year old cold case.

This isn't just court reports and police sketches. This delves into the psyche of the criminals of the late 70s. There was a rash of murders - see above - many of which remain unsolved to this day.

Both Hunt and Rossmann write with a heart. They present exhaustive amounts of evidence and theories. This is what I like to read. This is what journalism is really about. The answer to long dead questions. The heart of people. And the truth behind lies.

Elizabeth Andes was murdered in Ohio in 1978. This book is written from the transcripts from a “True Crime” podcast. The police originally believed they’d solved the case almost immediately. It didn’t turn out that way, and the man originally charged was released.

Now, many years later, two Cincinnati reporters re-examine the murder and uncover new information that showed the police may have ignored useful information. Will Elizabeth’s murder ever be solved? Or was it solved with no justice served?

Such a sad story for Elizabeth, and her family and friends. While I found the book interesting, in the end there is still a dead young woman. It doesn’t make me feel any better about her death. The book provides the facts of the case, and the outcome of where it stands some 40 years later. It also leaves you with possible clues to who may have been the actual killer. Actual pictures and news articles also appear in the book.

It was told with empathy, and I feel it may be comforting to those that actually knew her. She is not forgotten, and more people in the world will now know who she was. A tribute to one lost so young. Authors who don’t plan to give up until the truth is told.

Thank you to authors, Amber Hunt, and Amanda Rossmann, Netgalley, and Diversion Books.