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Twisted
- The Secret Desires and Bizarre Double Life of Dr. Richard Sharpe
- Narrated by: Shaun Grindell
- Length: 6 hrs and 38 mins
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Publisher's Summary
He had a successful career, a selfless wife, and three loving children.
When high school sweethearts Karen and Richard Sharpe married, they shared an interest in medicine, a desire for family, and a dream for the future. For Karen, that dream became a nightmare. After years of abuse at the hands of her physician husband, she put an end to their 26-year marriage. Fearing a crushing divorce settlement, Richard ended the marriage first by unloading a .22-caliber rifle into Karen's chest. The murder revealed more about the millionaire doctor - and his double life - than polite Boston society was prepared for.
He also had a secret that shot his picture-perfect world to hell.
Behind the doors of their upscale Massachusetts home, Dr. Sharpe was a compulsive cross-dresser with a penchant for his own daughter's underwear - a respected family man who had not only been taking hormones to grow breasts, but who stole his wife's birth control pills to supplement them. But not even his own family could have imagined that it would take cold-blooded murder to finally reveal the good doctor's disturbing secrets, and shatter forever the prosaic facade of an all-American family.
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- 13-12-2023
Some problematic representation
John Glatt is a great true crime author and this is another example of his ability to break down a case into a thoroughly readable account. It’s an interesting case and Glatt does a great job in breaking down the stages in Sharpe’s life in the lead up to his crime. I struggled a bit with how the cross-dressing was presented. While Glatt was presenting information as it was covered in court and the media at the time, I did feel that some recognition of cross-dressing as not being a contributing factor to the perpetrator’s criminality was warranted.
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