Jax Miller is an American author  of several books, and writer for Oxygen True Crime. While hitchhiking across America in her twenties, she wrote her first novel, Freedom’s Child, for which she won the 2016 Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle and earned several CWA Dagger nominations. She has received acclaim from the New York Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly, and many more. She now works in the true-crime genre, having penned her much-anticipated book and acting as creator, host, and executive producer on the true-crime documentary series Hell in the Heartland on CNN’s HLN network. It is currently streamable on Discovery Plus. Jax is a lover of film and music, and has a passion for rock ‘n’ roll and writing screenplays.

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Jax will be featured as a guest in Season 4's Ashley Freeman & Lauria Bible Saga Episodes along with Lorene Bible and Lisa Brodrick where we discuss the book, the case, and some of her thoughts in general.

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Kathryn Miles is an award-winning journalist and science writer and made her way into the true crime genre with Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders. For more info on the book, click the link above.

 

She received a Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy from Saint Louis University and took both her Master of Arts and Doctorate in English from the University of Delaware. The long-time editor of Hawk & Handsaw, Miles served as professor of environmental studies and writing at Unity College from 2001-2015 and has since taught in several graduate schools and low residency-MFA programs including, most recently, at Green Mountain College, where she was also writer-in-residence.

 

Miles is the author of five books: Adventures with Ari, All Standing, Superstorm, Quakeland, and Trailed: One Woman’s Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders. Her essays and articles have appeared in publications including Audubon, Best American Essays, The Boston Globe, Down East, Ecotone, History, The New York Times, Outside, Pacific Standard, Politico, Popular Mechanics, and Time. She currently serves as a scholar-in-residence for the Maine Humanities Council, a faculty member for several MFA programs, and as a private consultant available for emerging and established writers. She lives in Portland, Maine.

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Some of the organizations that she's passionate about are: Outdoor Afro & Fat Girls Hiking

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Find more about her here: https://www.kathrynmiles.net/

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She is a featured guest on an episode of Season 3's Raven's Reviews where we talk about her book Trailed.

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An award-winning journalist and a critically acclaimed bestselling author, Kathryn Casey has written eleven true crime books and is the creator of the Sarah Armstrong and Clara Jefferies mystery series. Her books have been Literary and Mystery Guild selections, and DEADLY LITTLE SECRETS was made into a Lifetime movie.

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As a journalist, Casey has written more than a hundred national magazine articles and pieces for The Washington Post, the Boston Globe, and the Houston Chronicle. Based on her work for her book DELIVER US, she was featured in all three episodes of the Netflix limited series "Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields." A frequent public speaker, Casey has appeared on dozens of television and radio programs and podcasts, including The Today Show, Good Morning America, 20/20, 48 Hours, Oprah, Investigation Discovery, the Travel Channel, and other venues.

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Her first novel, SINGULARITY, was named a Best Crime Novel Debut by Booklist, and Library Journal chose THE KILLING STORM for its annual list of Best Mysteries. Elle Magazine picked DIE, MY LOVE as one of the ten best thrillers and crime books written by a woman. True crime matriarch Ann Rule praised Casey as "one of the best," and #1 NY Times bestselling author Gregg Olsen has called Casey "a true crime great."

 

Casey is a member of the Authors Guild and Mystery Writers of America.

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'Deliver US'

Featured in the Netflix limited series: 'Crime Scene, The Texas Killing Fields'

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Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fields—a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes. Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenagers—died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten. Six met their demise in pairs. They had one thing in common: being in the wrong place at the wrong time. In this harrowing true crime exposition, award-winning journalist Kathryn Casey tracks these tragic cases, investigates the evidence, interviews the suspects, and pulls back the cloak of secrecy in search of elusive answers.

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Find more about her here: https://www.kathryncasey.com/

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She is a featured guest on an episode of Season 4's Raven's Reviews where we talk about her books 'Angel Falls' and 'Deliver Us.'

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Books are available in Hardback, Paperback, Kindle, and Audible where ever you get your books!

Marta McDowell lives, writes and gardens in Chatham, New Jersey. She shares her garden with her husband Kirke Bent and assorted wildlife. Her garden writing has appeared in popular publications such as Woman’s Day, Country Gardening, and The New York Times.  She is a regular contributor to the British journal Hortus. 

Marta's work typically follows the relationship between the pen and the trowel, that is authors and their gardens.  Her latest book, Gardening Can Be Murder explores the garden as the inspiration for writers of crime fiction. Timber Press also published Unearthing The Secret Garden, Emily Dickinson's Gardening Life, The World of Laura Ingalls Wilder, All the Presidents' Gardens--about to be released in a revised edition--and Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life. All the Presidents' Gardens made The New York Times bestseller list and won an American Horticultural Society book award in 2017. Beatrix Potter's Gardening Life won the Gold Award from the Garden Writers Association and is now in its eighth printing. Her books have been translated into Chinese, Italian, Japanese, and Korean. 

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Marta's newest book about plant and horticulture themes in crime fiction is called Gardening Can Be Murder.

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She is a featured guest on an episode of Season 4's Raven's Reviews.

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Her book is available for in Hardback & on Kindle.

Karen Pierce is a self-confessed foodie, amateur cook, and avid reader of Agatha Christie. At the age of twelve, she picked up a Christie pocketbook from her grandmother’s bedside table. It was ‘Third Girl,’ a glorious romp through London of the sixties, and she was hooked.

Over many years of reading and rereading Christie’s novels, she noticed the role food played in many of the mysteries. Curious to know if the ingredients Lucy Eyelesbarrow gives to the inspector in 4:50 from Paddington actually constituted a recipe for soup, she followed the list and to her surprise and delight made a quite delicious mushroom and lemon soup. This led to other questions – what is a cold coffee soda? What is a canapé Diane? Who grows marrows? Why does Poirot dislike English coffee so much? And what on earth is sirop de cassis? The resulting investigation led to the writing of Recipes for Murder – the first exploration of food in Christie’s novels.

She has attended and volunteered at several Anthony Boucher Memorial World Mystery Conventions and has taken pilgrimages to Torquay and Greenway House, Christie’s hometown and home. She currently resides in Toronto, Canada.

'RECIPES FOR MURDER'

Drink and dine with recipes inspired by the best-selling novelist of all time. Poisons, knives, and bullets riddle the stories of Agatha Christie, but so does food, which she uses to invoke settings, develop characters, and, of course, commit murder. This to-die-for cookbook offers recipes written by the author for one accessible, easy-to-follow dish or drink for each of Christie’s 66 mysteries. Recipes include Fish and Chips at the Seven Dials Club, Literary Luncheon Meringues, Oysters Rockefeller on the Orient Express, Sixpence Blackbird Pie, Orange Marmalade from Gossington Hall, and more. Along the way, you’ll learn how to make an exquisite omelet, how to roast a leg of lamb properly, and how to serve perfectly timed steak frites. Framing these dishes are insightful essays and headnotes that detail the history of the recipes, their context in Christie’s life and times, and the roles they play in the source works. Based on extensive research and investigation, all dishes appear traditional to their respective eras, so steak fried for 1923 but marinated and grilled for 1964. Completing the collection, thematic menus assemble recipes for a Halloween murder mystery gathering, a “Christie for Christmas,” a book club buffet, and other occasions, making it a filling tribute to the grand dame of detective fiction.

 

This book has not been prepared, approved, or licensed by Agatha Christie Limited, RLJ Entertainment, or any individual or entity associated with Agatha Christie or her successors.

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Find more about her here.

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She is a featured guest on an episode of Season 4's Raven's Reviews.

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Her book is available for preorder in Hardback & on Kindle.

J.D. Morrison is an Oklahoma Native now living in Missouri with her family. This is her second novel.

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'SHATTERED JUSTICE:

THE OKLAHOMA GIRL SCOUT MURDERS'

Shattered Justice, bearing the title chosen by Paul Smith (Sheriff of Mayes County, OK, from 1981 to 1985), describes Smith’s squelched efforts to get justice for three little Girl Scouts murdered deep in the woods just outside Locust Grove, OK, on June 13, 1977. Lori Farmer, 8, Doris “Denise” Milner, 10, and Michelle Gusé, 9, were bludgeoned and strangled while sharing a tent during their first night of summer camp.

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Morrison chronicles Smith’s attempts to get three suspects (one of whom confessed) charged in the killings, only to be stopped cold by the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation, which still claims that Gene Leroy Hart, a prison escapee, was the lone killer. Following a ten-month manhunt, Hart was brought to trial and acquitted by a jury in 1979.

Smith and Morrison, who both appeared in Fox Nation’s The Girl Scout Murders in October 2022, together put forth a compelling analysis of evidence that points in another direction. Morrison now reveals details from hidden law enforcement records that she discovered in early 2022–records that Smith was deprived of during his stint as sheriff—as well as a death bed confession letter mailed to Morrison in the spring of 2021.

Shattered Justice covers one of the biggest whodunnits in Oklahoma history and meticulously educates the reader as to why no one has ever been held accountable for the horrendous crime. Morrison makes her case with disturbing and explosive details of misconduct by those who, seemingly, are determined to prevent justice from being meted out to the guilty.

 

 J.D. will be featured on a Season 4 Episode of Raven's Reviews.

Sally Denton is an investigative reporter, author, and historian who writes about the subjects others ignore--from a drug conspiracy in Kentucky to organized crime in Las Vegas; from corruption within the Mormon Church to the hidden history of Manifest Destiny; from one of America's bitterest political campaigns to the powerful forces against Franklin D. Roosevelt.  She has an extensive background in print and broadcast, as well as magazine and book writing.  

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Sally is the author of eight books, including bestseller The Bluegrass Conspiracy, and the coauthor of a classic account of Las Vegas, The Money and the Power. She lives in Nevada.

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'THE COLONLY'

An investigation into the November, 2019 killings of nine women and children in Northern Mexico—an event that drew international attention—The Colony examines the strange, little-understood world of a polygamist Mormon outpost.

 

In The Colony, bestselling investigative journalist Sally Denton picks up where the initial, incomplete reporting on the attacks ended, and delves into the complex story of the LeBaron clan. Their homestead—Colonia LeBaron—is a portal into the past, a place that offers a glimpse of life within a polygamous community on an arid and dangerous frontier in the mid-1800s, though with smartphones and machine guns. Rooting her narrative in written sources as well as interviews with anonymous women from LeBaron itself, Denton unfolds an epic, disturbing tale that spans the first polygamist emigrations to Mexico through the LeBarons’ internal blood feud in the 1970s—started by Ervil LeBaron, known as the “Mormon Manson”—and up to the family’s recent alliance with the NXIVM sex cult, whose now-imprisoned leader, Keith Raniere, may have based his practices on the society he witnessed in Colonia LeBaron

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Find more about her here: https://www.sallydenton.com

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She is a featured guest on an episode of Season 3's Raven's Reviews where we talk about her book The Colony.

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The Colony is available in Hardback, Kinde, and on Audible.

Law professor, an innocence litigator, and a former federal prosecutor. She has exonerated wrongly convicted clients, founded the West Virginia Innocence Project, obtained presidential grants of clemency for drug offenses, and co-edited a guide
to causes of wrongful convictions, The Wrongful Convictions Reader.

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Valena teaches at Arizona State University Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law and co-leads the Academy for Justice, a criminal justice center at ASU connecting research with policy reform. Her experiences as a federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., and as an innocence litigator in Mississippi and West Virginia, shape her writing and advocacy on wrongful convictions, forensic evidence, prosecutors and incarceration. She has served as an elected board member of the national Innocence Network, an invited board member of the Research Center on Violence, and an appointed commissioner on the West Virginia Governor’s Indigent Defense Commission.

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'MANIFESTING JUSTICE: WRONGFULLY CONVICTED WOMEN RECLAIM THEIR RIGHTS'

It's both a blueprint for reform and a clarion call to change popular ideas of innocence and freedom.

Drawing on interviews with both innocence advocates and wrongfully convicted women, along with Beety’s own experiences as an expert innocence litigator and a queer woman, Manifesting Justice provides a unique outsider/insider perspective.

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Find more about her here: https://www.valenabeety.com

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She is a featured guest on an episode of Season 3's Raven's Reviews where we discuss her work, her life, and her book.

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Manifesting Justice is available in Hardback, Kindle, and on Audible.

Mr. Adams was wrongfully convicted of a crime at age 17 and sentenced to 28 years in a maximum-security prison. After serving nearly ten years and filing multiple appeals with the assistance of the Wisconsin Innocence Project, the Seventh Circuit United States Court of Appeals exonerated him.

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He used the injustice he endured as inspiration to become an advocate and attorney for the underserved and often uncounted. Mr. Adams earned his Juris Doctorate from Loyola University Chicago School of Law in May 2015.

During law school, Mr. Adams worked as an investigator for the Illinois Federal Defender’s Program. For his work with the clemency petition of Reynolds Wintersmith, ultimately granted by President Obama, he received the National Defender Investigator Association Investigator of the Year award.

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He served as a public interest law fellow under the Hon. Ann Claire Williams, of the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals. This is the same court that reversed his wrongful conviction because of his trial lawyer’s constitutional deficiencies. Mr. Adams also clerked in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York with the late Honorable Deborah Batts. 

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In early 2016, he started as an attorney with the Innocence Project in New York. Working in the litigation department, Mr. Adams earned one of his first victories, exonerating a man in the same Wisconsin prison where he had served time during his wrongful conviction. 

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Mr. Adams launched the Law Offices of Jarrett Adams, PLLC, in 2017 with offices and attorneys in New York, NY, Chicago, IL, and Milwaukee, WI. He expects to open a Los Angeles, CA office in 2022. 

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He is also a co-founder of Life After Justice, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization dedicated to preventing wrongful convictions and developing an ecosystem of support and empowerment for exonerees’ as they rebuild their lives after exoneration. 

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As an author, Mr. Adams shares a cinematic story of hope and redemption in his memoir, Redeeming Justice. Redeeming Justice:  From Defendant to Defender, My Fight For Equity On Both Sides Of A Broken System, published by Penguin Random House, is the poignant story of how an innocent young adult of color experienced the injustice of a legal system that purports to provide “justice for all.”  His account of incarceration, exoneration, and redemption has been featured widely in the media, and he has become a sought-after motivational speaker for athletes, students, inmates, attorneys, and others.

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Find more about him here:

 https://jarrettadamslaw.com/

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He is a featured guest on an episode of Season 3's Raven's Reviews.

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Available in Hardback, Kindle, & on Audible.

A North Carolina-based writer long fascinated with serial crime and the psychology behind it, E.J. Hammon became interested in Ted Bundy's life over two decades ago. She has authored a blog about him since 2009, aptly titled, "Confessions of a Bundyphile" and she has written several in-depth articles regarding his psychology for various true crime sites, along with true crime podcast scripts. This book is her first in what will become a series of true crime books referencing a variety of killers.

 

"TED BUNDY: MEMORIES OF THE BEAST"

Can a man who howls under the moon after killing one of his victims be no longer described as human, but as a beast? In their quest to delve into the mind of Ted Bundy, E.J. Hammon and Fabien Richard had to hear the tales from the mouths of his surviving victims, of the investigators who tracked him down, of the lawmen who sought to convict him, and of those who trapped this animal inside a cage before his final punishment, death by electrocution.

With more than 15 interviews with criminologists, law enforcement professionals, and witnesses who were unlucky enough to cross the path of the “Lady Killer”, Ted Bundy: Memories of the Beast is one of the most detailed documents ever compiled on this case. From anecdotes shared by one of his friends of the Mormon church to the moving story recounted by a survivor of the Chi Omega massacre, this book is a must-read for researchers and avid readers of true crime.

“In Ted Bundy: Memories of the Beast, you will learn more about these types of murderers. Fabien Richard and E.J. Hammon reveal the secrets of a tortured soul. I highly recommend this book.”
-John Douglas, author of Mindhunter

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E.J. is featured on a Season 4 bonus Episode of Raven's Reviews about her book.

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To purchase his books, click Book Photo above.

Check out her Blog 'Confessions of a Bundyphile'

A write based in France, Fabien grew up with a father in law enforcement, but decided not to pursue his father's career path. He, instead, sticks to writing and journalistic investigation.

"I am a poker journalist who’s been working in the arts for a few years, but for the past fifteen years I have spent a minimum of two months a year in the United States. My visits to Utah have caused me to relate to Bundy because of the fact that he was a Mormon.
I wanted to understand how a man who had everything to succeed could have wasted his life so much.
Ted Bundy also brings together all the elements of an extraordinary criminal case: An intelligent, elegant, successful man who, instead of becoming someone to look up to, became a murderer, repeat offender, barbaric, bloodthirsty, calculating, and who turned his life into something worse than any horror thriller."

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- Excerpt from his interview with Crime Piper.

 

"TED BUNDY: MEMORIES OF THE BEAST"

Can a man who howls under the moon after killing one of his victims be no longer described as human, but as a beast? In their quest to delve into the mind of Ted Bundy, E.J. Hammon and Fabien Richard had to hear the tales from the mouths of his surviving victims, of the investigators who tracked him down, of the lawmen who sought to convict him, and of those who trapped this animal inside a cage before his final punishment, death by electrocution.

With more than 15 interviews with criminologists, law enforcement professionals, and witnesses who were unlucky enough to cross the path of the “Lady Killer”, Ted Bundy: Memories of the Beast is one of the most detailed documents ever compiled on this case. From anecdotes shared by one of his friends of the Mormon church to the moving story recounted by a survivor of the Chi Omega massacre, this book is a must-read for researchers and avid readers of true crime.

“In Ted Bundy: Memories of the Beast, you will learn more about these types of murderers. Fabien Richard and E.J. Hammon reveal the secrets of a tortured soul. I highly recommend this book.”
-John Douglas, author of Mindhunter

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E.J. is featured on a Season 4 bonus Episode of Raven's Reviews about her book.

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To purchase his books, click Book Photo above.

Author Vic Ferrari is a retired New York City Police Department detective with the hamstrings of a twenty-year-old. A survivor of an Irish father and Italian mother, Vic loves a cold beer and insists on you removing your shoes when entering his home. Vic writes about his time with the NYPD and gives you a behind the scenes look at crime and criminals. When he's not writing, he's picking up after his neurotic Irish Wolfhound. Always looking to save a buck, Vic splits his time between Branson, Missouri, and Papua New Guinea. He currently lives in Florida.

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https://www.facebook.com/vicferrarinypd

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Vic is featured on a Season 3 Episode of Raven's Reviews.

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To purchase his books, click the link below the Book Photo above. Available in hardback, paperback, and ebook.