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Some days I have a lot to say. But there is only one blog and all of my posts are compiled in chronological order. To sort through and read only the posts you are most interested in, you can select from the three topics described below.
4N6Fact Fridays, fun forensic facts from the news. You know you want to read them! The weekly posts will appear on this blog under category 4N6, and also on tumblr.
Film2Fiction: Of all the things I pretend to know a lot about, writing is one topic where I have plenty of boots on the ground experience and lots to share. To view my blogs on writing select F2F.
And finally, book love. I review books I have read and loved and think you should read them, too. Click on book<3
To Catch A Killer
Exciting news! My young adult forensic mystery To Catch a Killer (Erin Blake series, #1) was nominated by the New Hampshire school community for their prestigious One School, One Book program. This means that over 500 students read my book together as a part of their school programming and met my heroine, Erin Blake! Continue reading
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4N6 Fans, To Catch A Killer
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DNA analysis has become so sensitive that someone could conceivably shake your hand– transferring your DNA onto their skin–and then they could go out commit a crime and transfer your DNA to that crime scene without you even being there. What kind of demented sorcery is that, you ask? Exactly! But this transfer largely depends on if you heavily shed your skin cells. They can tell a heavy shedder from a moderate one. In this test, men were the heavy shedders while women were more moderate. But that could be solely based on size. Mens hands and thumbprints are larger. … Continue reading
4N6 Fans, To Catch A Killer
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This is one incredible story! Take one super-evasive serial killer + add an obsessed writer (#mypeople) and a clearly inventive and thinking outside the box detective; simmer for 20 years and wow. What a story! I’ll link to the newspaper accounts, but simplified, the detective came up with the idea to take the DNA recovered from the crime scene and upload it to a genealogy site under a fake profile, hoping to match to a family member. AND IT WORKED! This ploy led police to Joseph James DeAngelo and ex-cop and frightening dude. “To find the DNA match, investigators created … Continue reading
4N6 Fans, To Catch A Killer
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It only took 38 years! 38 years of wrongful incarceration! The scariest part? The killer who actually raped, beat and strangled Craig Coley’s ex-girlfriend and smothered her 4-year-old son was (and likely is) STILL OUT THERE! There were problems with the trial, but Coley was ultimately convicted primarily on the basis of eye witness testimony — a neighbor of the victims claimed that she had seen a man matching Coley’s description drive away the morning of the killings. However, exactly 39 years after the murders, at the same time of early morning, detectives returned to that neighbor’s apartment to … Continue reading
Innocence Project, To Catch A Killer, To Right The Wrongs, Uncategorized
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