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Tomorrow, Aug 15, at 9pm, Investigation Discovery's SIX DEGREES OF MURDER is airing an episode on the Greg May case, featured in THE SKELETON CREW as "The head in the bucket." I haven't seen the segment, but I was interviewed on camera for it. Gulp.

This program was originally scheduled for January, was postponed twice due to snow, and is now scheduled for April 16. I'll join Dan Brady of the Doe Network and Lt. Glen Mills of the Burlington Police Department to discuss how amateur sleuths are using new technology and old-fashioned investigative strategy to solve cold cases.

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Just wrote a post for Medium.com about how the subject of my book The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases can both repel and compel...

"The plucky blond who almost became mincemeat at the hands of the chainsaw-wielding cannibal was telling me that slasher films are really just like something out of Dickens, or perhaps 19th-century French novelist Emile Zola. Listening in, career creepazoid Bill Moseley smirked and rolled his eyes.

"I was at Scarefest, billed as the nation’s largest horror and paranormal convention, looking for insight from Caroline Williams, who played Vanita 'Stretch' Brock in The Texas Chainsaw Massacre II into why some people love their movies spattered with blood and gore."

Read the full article here.

Please check out my list of upcoming events about The Skeleton Crew: How Amateur Sleuths Are Solving America’s Coldest Cases.

I'll be traveling to Gulfport, MS (tomorrow!), then a bunch of appearances in Massachusetts (Centerville, Tewksbury, Concord, Quincy, Dedham, Lexington) and a jaunt out to Long Beach, California for Bouchercon.

Would love to see any of you in those areas!

Very happy with the reviews coming in so far -- if you want to check them out, as well as some other media that's been trickling in, see the Reviews and News pages of my website.

Next up: two book launch events in New York City. I'll be at the Morbid Anatomy Museum in Brooklyn on Tuesday, July 8, and The Corner Bookstore in Manhattan on Wednesday, July 9. I look forward to seeing some of you New Yorkers there!

If you're in this part of the country, I hope you'll join me and web sleuth Todd Matthews at the Books-A-Million in Cookeville, TN on July 5 at 1:00 p.m. for a talk, book-signing and refreshements. Event listing >>>

I'll be discussing my book with Tom Ashbrook on WBUR's 'On Point' today (Crowdsourcing Criminal Investigations in the Digital Age) at 11:00 a.m. EDT — please tune in! If your NPR station doesn't carry it, you can listen to a live stream, and the broadcast will be archived, so you can also listen later...

Here's an article I wrote for the current issue of Tufts Magazine about Baby Jane, an unidentified toddler found dead in a Mississippi river in 1982, and those who have tried to give her a name ever since. You'll read a lot more about one of these dedicated individuals, web sleuth Ellen Leach, in THE SKELETON CREW.

Here's a short MP3 of Laural Merlington's narration of the audiobook version of THE SKELETON CREW, available on Tantor Audio's site.