Status Updates From True Story: Murder, Memoir,...

“MaryJane says to you, ‘You did this. This was your fault. You killed us.’ Things along that line?”
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“Longo had finally admitted that he was a murderer. I’d anticipated this moment for months, envisioning what it would be like for him, and for our relationship, when he was able to drop all his layers of deception and come to terms with who he really was. But now I couldn’t shake the feeling that his guilty pleas were just the beginning of another complicated game.”

“Longo, I knew, wore his vocabulary as a form of intellectual armor, a way to show others that even as a prisoner he was still in some ways superior.”

“I couldn’t help myself. I’d lost my job, not my instincts. Longo’s story—one that combined murder, identity theft, and a bizarre personal connection—was the journalistic equivalent of a winning lottery ticket.”