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Where My Fascination Began and Where it Goes

  Since it will take me a while to get back into things and started back up I thought I would start with how I got here and how my mind works.  I hope you have some time on your hands. They say never ask a woman her age, well as we go through cases and probably my opinions of such I do not think my age would be a secret so lets just get that out of the way.  I am fifty-one.  I am married and my husband and I have three grown children.  But, I did not wake up last year and become fascinated with crime.  It has been a lifelong passion it seems. While I cannot say for certain, I am pretty sure the first true crime book I read was written by Ann Rule.  She was big in the 1980's.  She had come out with "The Stranger Beside Me" about her real life relationship with serial killer Ted Bundy in 1980 and she ran with it.  She is probably one of the best known, and some say loved, true crime writers.  I admit that throughout the 1980's and into the...