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  • A Beautiful Child

  • A True Story of Hope, Horror, and an Enduring Human Spirit
  • By: Matt Birkbeck
  • Narrated by: Skye Borgman
  • Length: 8 hrs and 30 mins
  • 4.6 out of 5 stars (18 ratings)

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A Beautiful Child

By: Matt Birkbeck
Narrated by: Skye Borgman
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Summary

THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX DOCUMENTARY GIRL IN THE PICTURE

Sharon Marshall was a brilliant and beautiful student whose future was filled with promise—until her murderous, fugitive father drew her into a lifetime of deception that became one of the most baffling cases in the annals of American true crime.


A student at Forest Park High School near Atlanta, Georgia, popular blonde-haired Sharon Marshall was at the top of her class. Serving as a Lt. Colonel in the ROTC, she earned a full scholarship to Georgia Tech University to study aerospace engineering. She was the ultimate girl next door, sweet, generous, and well-adjusted. But Sharon had disturbing secrets so shocking and unique, they took more than a decade to unravel...

This is the horrifying true story of a mysterious young woman caught in the violent web of the murderous fugitive she called her father—and a heartrending testament to the profound courage and perseverance of one woman trapped in the grip of extreme evil.

©2005 Matt Birkbeck (P)2022 Penguin Audio
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Very good

A well documented and researched book. I enjoyed the narrator too. What a monster and pervert of a person. Those poor beautiful children snuffed out cruelly and so young. Definitely death row for him. So many however, spend years on it with appeals and end up never being executed. I understand his childhood was horrific but it's no excuse to do what he did, despicable really.

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Well written, but narrators voice grated a bit

couldn't finish it because the fullness of the narrator's voice for to me. Overall good.

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A Beautiful Child is a true crime banger

I needed to know more about “Sharon” after watching Netflix, and A Beautiful Child didn’t disappoint.

You helped give Suzanne her name and dignity back. Now that’s some life’s work for anyone, Matt Birbeck did it through creativity

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