December 2023 Title - Such Goo d Boys: The True Story of a Mother\, Two Sons and a Horrifying Murder \;by Tina Dirmann
\n"AN ABUSIVE MOTHER
Raised in the suburb of Riverside\, California\, twenty-year-old co
llege student Jason Bautista endured for years his emotionally disturbed m
other's verbal and psychological abuse. She even locked him out of the hou
se\, tied him up with electrical cord\, and on one occasion\, gave him a b
eating that sent him to the emergency room. His fifteen-year-old half brot
her Matthew Montejo also was a victim to Jane Bautista's dark mood swings
and erratic behavior\, but for some reason\, Jason received the brunt of t
he abuse―until he decided he'd had enough&hellip\;
A SON'S REVENGE
On the night of January 14\, 2003\, Jason st
rangled his mother. To keep authorities from identifying her body\, he cho
pped off her head and hands\, an idea he claimed he got from watching an e
pisode of the hit TV series "The Sopranos." Matthew would later testify in
court that he sat in another room in the house with the TV volume turned
up while Jason murdered their mother. He also testified that he drove arou
nd with Jason to find a place to dump Jane's torso.
A CRIM
E THAT WOULD BOND TWO BROTHERS
The morning following the mur
der\, Matthew went to school\, and Jason returned to his classes at Cal St
ate San Bernardino. When authorities zeroed in on them\, Jason lied and sa
id that Jane had run off with a boyfriend she'd met on the Internet. But w
hen police confronted the boys with overwhelming evidence\, Jason confesse
d all. Now the nightmare was only just beginning for him&hellip\;" (Amazon
)
*Beginning in January 2024\, this book club will begin meeti ng on the first Sunday of the month at the Tower Road Branch Library.
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