Defending Jacob 2:

So far this book is so intense, you keep on thinking "Did Jacob actually kill Ben? Or was he framed?" All of these thoughts run through your head all thinking about how Jacob must be feeling but then you read about Laurie and how much this situation has completely changed her. On top having her struggle with Jacob's case, Andy had decided to tell her about his family history to violence and murder. If I were Laurie I would have looked back at Jacobs case with a different perspective now knowing about Andy's family history. Toward the end of the trial I was surprised that "Bloody Billy Barber" actually tried to help out his grandchild, even if he wasn't there. I was shocked that the Billy also had that much doubt of Jacob being the murder that he sent Father O'Leary to force Patz to write the letter saying that he did it so Jacob would be innocent. After reading about all of this and after thinking of all of the evidence again I began to think that maybe Jacob did murder Ben Rifkin.