To the Bridge: A True Story of Motherhood and Murder Audiobook (Free)

The situation was closed, but also for journalist Nancy Rommelmann, the mystery remained: What produced a mother want to murder her own children?

ON, MAY 23, 2009, Amanda Stott-Smith drove to the center of the Sellwood Bridge in Portland, Oregon, and dropped her two children in to the Willamette River. Forty minutes later, rescuers found the body of four-year-old Eldon. Miraculously, his seven-year-old sister, Trinity, was preserved. As the public cried out for bloodstream, Amanda was imprisoned, convicted, and sentenced to thirty-five years in jail.

Getting into a seven-year search for the reality, Rommelmann traced the origins of Amanda’s fury and desperation through a large number of pages of documents, withheld documents, meetings with lawyers and convicts, and interviews with friends and family who was feeling shocked, puzzled, and emotionally swindled by a woman whose lifetime was now defined by an unspeakable crime. In the centre of that crime: a tempestuous marriage, a family on the fast monitor to self-destruction, and a myriad of secrets and is situated as dark and turbulent as the Willamette River.