Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Sons Greed Led To Murder: Summary

Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led to Murder: Summary

18 year old Darren Huenemann of Saanich, British Columbia seemed to be a model student, friend, son and grandson. His mother Sharon called him the

"perfect gentleman", as did most of the community around him. When his grandmother Doris made out her will in 1989, she made it so her daughter Sharon would receive half of her $4 million dollar estate, and Darren the other half.

At the same time Sharon updated her will to include Darren as the beneficiary of her estate. If they ever came to harm and died, he would be a very rich young man. In the fall of 1989, Darren Huenemann decided that he wanted to be that very rich young man now.

The book, Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led to Murder, written by Lisa Hobbs Birnie, starts out with a profile of the characters involved in the brutal tale. First is Doris Kryciak Leatherbarrow, born in

Calder, Saskatchewan in 1920. Doris grew up in poverty, the oldest of seven children in the farming family. Doris was a good student when she went to school, but quit at fifteen and worked at school. She married George Artemenko, a shipyard worker, and became pregnant soon after. She gave birth to Sharon Doreen in March of 1943. This daughter never knew her father; George died in a fall at work three months after the birth of his child. This left Doris alone and knowing that she needed to do something to support her child. After the war, she landed a job with the newly formed Unemployment Services in the Vancouver area, where she raised enough money to complete one of her dreams: own her own dress shop. She married again to Rene Leatherbarrow, and expanded her dress shop to a large fashion warehouse with four stores.

Next explained in the book is Sharon Doreen Leatherbarrow. She grew up under a mother that was always working, and a father that was usually away on business excursions. She learned how to manipulate her mother using guilt to receive what her young heart desired. She married three times: the second wedding yielding a son named Darren Charles, and the third wedding to Ralph

Huenemann lasted until her death. Sharon usually lived off her mother's wealth, but was later put on the payroll by Doris when Doris needed assistance in her work. ...

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...nt of their power to deliver a jurisprudent sentence, one of justice and fairness. Also a power sentence will show that the youth, knowing exactly what they were doing, are not above the law in their rights. Huenemann's money and influence also was shown to be ineffective in his attempts to become above the law. Finally, this case gives an example of the motive of greed, purely and as evil as it gets.

Conclusions

This case shows that pampering a child, showering him with wealth, and flaunting the idea that "it will all be his someday", is a formula for disaster.

The child does not have a chance to develop his own personality, therefore puts up "masks" and his real personality broods and grows to resent his elders.

The book, Such A Good Boy: How A Pampered Son's Greed Led To Murder, written by Lisa Hobbs Birnie, is a well written case review, with very little bias or contrary opinion. It strictly relates the facts in almost every aspect.

This would be a good book for a senior law class to read and relate their ideas on the evidence, the judgment, and the inside of the criminal mind of Darren

Huenemann.