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Deborah Holt Larkin
I was ten years old when Olga Duncan, a young pregnant nurse, vanished from her Santa Barbara apartment one night in 1958. The discovery of her brutally-beaten body a month later in a shallow grave on a lonely road fed my worst fears and scariest nightmares. I was thunderstruck. The mystery of what happened to Olga scared yet fascinated me, and ignited my life-long interest in true crime stories--not because I like blood and violence, but because of my own feelings of vulnerability.
My father was a reporter for the local newspaper when Olga disappeared. He covered the brutal crime from beginning to end. Daddy had no filter and his nightly spellbinding stories told around our dinning room table brought the bizarre characters involved in Olga's murder to life for me. When the sensational trial of her killers began, newspaper reporters from all over the country descended on our small town. Olga's story has haunted me my entire life.
My father was a reporter for the local newspaper when Olga disappeared. He covered the brutal crime from beginning to end. Daddy had no filter and his nightly spellbinding stories told around our dinning room table brought the bizarre characters involved in Olga's murder to life for me. When the sensational trial of her killers began, newspaper reporters from all over the country descended on our small town. Olga's story has haunted me my entire life.
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