Homicide isn’t the one crime I write about. I’m fascinated by many anti-social behaviors. I feel most of us are. Different folks’s crimes beg the query—might I do the identical factor?
Being in Southern California, my focus is totally on the historic crimes of Los Angeles. In 2016, I wrote The First with the newest: Aggie Underwood, the Los Angeles Herald, and the Sordid Crimes of a Metropolis. The L.A. Weekly chosen the e-book as one of many high ten true crimes books in regards to the metropolis.
I used to be lucky to contribute to the Los Angeles Occasions bestseller LAPD ‘53, written by James Ellroy and Glynn Martin. It was a memorable undertaking.
My tales have appeared in true crime anthologies and in Los Angeles Journal. As a result of I like sharing tales about Los Angeles, I give displays to public teams and personal organizations at any time when I can.
Since 2009, I’ve appeared on over 60 true crime TV reveals and podcasts resembling, Metropolis of Angels, Metropolis of Loss of life; Lethal Girls; Evil Twins; Evil Kin; Ice Chilly Blood; Buried within the Yard; Bloodline Detectives, Killer Soundtrack, Hollywood & Crime, and plenty of others.
My weblog, Deranged L.A. Crimes, covers historic misdeeds within the Metropolis of Angels. This is the reason I’ve written OF MOBSTERS AND MOVIE STARS: The Bloody ‘Goden Age’ of Hollywood for WildBlue Press. Between 1919 and 1939, Los Angeles witnessed the fee of among the craziest and most diabolical crimes in its historical past. The place else however Los Angeles would a person plot to homicide his spouse utilizing two venomous rattlesnakes named Lightning and Deadly? Allow us to not neglect the lady who saved her lover in her attic for years.
I sit up for sharing these tales, and plenty of extra, with you.
After I’m not writing about or researching true crime, I cyber-stalk previous felons on ancestry websites and in classic newspapers. I additionally volunteer as an archivist and historian on the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Division Museum.
I reside with my husband, Scott, who doesn’t perceive my obsession with crime however wholeheartedly helps me anyway.