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Thinking back, it was the book "The Good Earth" by Pearl S. Buck that
stirred my interest in writing about people. As I read the book, I
marveled at the vivid characters and human drama that revolved around a
man’s love of the earth. Eventually, that interest compelled me to go
into journalism. As a journalist, I could write about people every day,
not fictional characters with make believe dialogue, but real people
caught up in the events of the day, the serendipities, the tragedies.
During my first years in journalism, I developed a fascination
with criminal cases. Covering crime became became one of my specialties
and I spent much of my time writing about people who had been murdered.
That’s how I was assigned to cover one of the most sinister slayings in
history in Omaha in 1978. Years later I chronicled the case in a book
called: Toxic Love. The book The Search for the Green River
Killer also was an extension of my journalism. The book is about a
serial killer who murdered up to 49 young women in the Pacific
Northwest. After the killer’s capture, I analyzed his confession and
wrote: Serial Killers: Issues Explored Through the Green River
Murders. The book includes an interactive CD with audio and video
snippets of the killer’s confession.
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Toxic Love |
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Review the first chapter:
An Indian summer turns tragic in the midwest. |
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