From First Word to Last – Eighty Years Ago Today

As I turned a yellowed newspaper page, immediately the words “Brutal Murders” caught my eye and were emblazoned across a top headline of the Lubbock Morning Avalanche-Journal on October 27, 1943. It was like I froze in time. Then the photo below the headline of two little girls grabbed my attention immediately and became engrained…

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The Writing and Titling of the Hunt Book

Sooooo – I’ve been writing and research the true crime story of the Hunt murders for seven years. I thought I was done in the fall of 2016, but feedback on the manuscript suggested I was not before it goes off to another publishing house. While the edits were minor they improved the flow of…

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Tiny Murder House

  “Dang, that’s a tiny house!” Those were the first words a friend said a few weeks ago when we drove by the former Hunt home in Littlefield, Texas. We were driving north to see Buffalo Lake National Wildlife Refuge near Hereford, Texas and she wanted to see the house. “Dang, that’s a tiny house!”…

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Timeline of the Complicated Hunt Murders

Writing and researching nonfiction is often not an easy task, especially when it comes to true crime. It takes a lot of perseverance to make sure all your research bases are covered. Then it takes hundreds if not thousands of hours delving through all that research figuring out the important parts that will convey the…

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