As a professional journalist for over a decade, I have specialized in police, crime and justice reporting. I recently finished the manuscript for my first true crime book about the case of James Keown, a Missouri native, convicted in June of 2008 of poisoning his wife Julie Keown, by spiking her Gatorade with antifreeze. Keown was a well-known radio talk show host in Jefferson City, Missouri, where he covered state and local politics for the news radio station KLIK. The book on the Keown case will be published by Berkley Publishing, which is an imprint of Penguin Books. Stay tuned for updates on the publication date and local release events on the Seacoast and Waltham, Massachusetts. I have written about the high profile murder cases of Seth Bader, Sheila LaBarre and provided legal writing for the New Hampshire Bar Association on the first death penalty cases to go forward in New Hampshire in recent years. I spent almost three months in the fall of 2008 covering the first of those death penalty cases to reach trial, millionaire businessman John "Jay" Brooks, for the Associated Press. I took a break from the world of journalism for two years while I worked as a private investigator for criminal defense attorneys, which gave me an education in the other side of justice. I am fascinated by the criminal mind and the story behind people who end up on the wrong side of the law.
Crime Writing
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