For Laci: A Mother's Story of Love, Loss, & Justice

by Sharon Rocha

Book Overview

Every mother's worst fear became Sharon Rocha's reality. On Christmas Eve 2002, she received a phone call from her son-in-law saying that her daughter, Laci, was missing. In the hours, days, and eventually months that followed, Sharon struggled to avoid accepting what no parent should ever have to face: the certain knowledge that her child is never coming home. InFor Laci, for the first time, Sharon tells us what it was like to live through the long...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0307338282
• ISBN13: 9780307338280
• Release Date: December 2005
• Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)
• Length: 335 Pages
• Weight: 1.47 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.8" x 9.4"

Customer Reviews

We should all have a mother like Sharon....

This book reaveals the "real" Laci behind the media stories. Sharon gives a beautiful rendering of her daughter without making her a saint and putting her up on a pedestal....but at the same time clearly showing what a truly special, wonderful, person Laci was. The photos are just beautiful. Oh, Laci as a child - I could just cry right now. Not for one moment did I get the feeling that Sharon was "spinning" the story to hammer-home or elaborate Scott's guilt. Not for one moment did I believe that Sharon & family got caught up in emotions and became accusatory of Scott in emotion. No, the books shows how this tragedy was revealed to the family in agonizing slowness....only after Scott repeatedly and consistently showed odd and outrageous behavior and innumerable lies did Sharon's faith in Scott begin to crumble. Sharon proves in this well-written book to be the classy lady she has come across as in the media. She doesn't hold her self up as above anything...but admits and shows us even the ugliness she felt and said. For anyone to cry about how Sharon wrote this book for money is infuriating. First of all, she is giving proceeds to missing person fund(s). Secondly, even if she wasn't ....so what??? Sharon deserves any comfort, consolance, etc. that comes her way..whether it's monetary or anything else. She has been through hell and as you'll read she may not get all the way back.

The BEST BOOK WRITTEN, by far about LACI PETERSON

I have read every single book written about the Laci Peterson case and this is the best book written by far. Aside from the obvious (the heart filled story of a mother's tragic loss) this book also gives: 1) So much insight into who Laci Peterson was. 2) New information about the case that no other books, articles, court tv or any transcripts gave. 3) Private journal entries that Laci wrote up to her death. 4) Intimate recorded conversations that Sharon had with Scott that have not ever been released anywhere else, but here. 5) Sharon addresses other books written about Laci 6) She also discusses her reaction to psychics and how the EVP played a role (this was very interesting) You must read this book, you won't be able to put it down. Very well written and makes you understand Laci and her family in a more personal way.............. Sharon, Laci would be proud of you, as we all are. God Bless you.

Some Truth for a Change.

What a wonderful tribute for a mother to give her daughter. The Rocha family is as classy as they come. Sharon tells Laci's story with love, pain, grief, and truth. It is also Sharon's story and the suffering she has had to endure at the hands of the murderer and his family. This book is well written and holds your attention with every word.

Heartbreaking and honest :-)

I'm only a little way through this book so far, but from what I've read already, it seems like a heartbreaking account of the hell that Laci's mother has gone through over the last couple of years. She recounts different conversations with various people and talks about her emotions through all of the disappearance and then when they found Laci's remains. I think though that she is very sincere and honest and is more interested in getting out to the public all her thoughts and emotions rather than making a quick buck. She seems too nice to want to do that as a result from the death of her beloved daughter. I think I'm going to need many boxes of kleenex's before I make it to the end. From what I've read so far, I highly recommend this to anyone with a heart.

This is the one!

If you've had any interest in the Scott Peterson case, this is the book you want to read. (My second favorite is Catherine Criers book). First, to put to rest the naysayers who cry "how could she sell out her daughter for MONEY!", all proceeds of this book are donated to an organization that searches for missing people. Now, as for the story, when you put down this book, every question you ever had will be answered (except for the one's that CAN'T be answered by anybody, except Scott of course). There's so much NEW information, mind boggling accounts of all the Petersons behavior (it's real easy to understand how Scott became what he did), although this is clearly not Sharon's intent. She write about the love of her life, Laci. It is everything rolled up into one book - the facts, the emotions, the aftermath. It is from the heart and written with the same dignity that Sharon displayed throughout her nightmarish ordeal. I couldn't put it down, read it right through the New Years celebration at midnight. Worth every penny.