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Ellen Judith Reich
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- About Me:
- I am a former journalist and, as my children get ready to leave the nest, am enrolled in a low-residency MFA program at Goddard College. I am focusing on dramatic writing and am working on a psychological thriller (screenplay, for now) for my thesis.
- I Am A:
- Reader, Writer
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- http://EllenJudithReich.com
- Books And Authors I Like:
- More than I can list, but for True Crime - Ann Rule and for Stage plays - Ira Levin, Anthony Shaeffer.
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Yeah, the crime study club venture was the result of many boring hours spent running a small retail business here in the Clinton area, in the early '80s, and reading five or six newspapers a day to fill my mind. My fascination with the cold, unsolved cases really started in the late '70s with the Sutcliff serial killings in England and the mutilation murder of a local woman in my old neighborhood of Hampton, Virginia, about the same time, still unsolved, I understand.
Several of us had formed a phone and mail link at first(people I didn't previously know), to pool what resources we might have, and I was doing the initial research into what would become our first case. What I found mostly, in addition to case facts, was a total lack of cooperation from news organizations(even lied to by at least one major paper) and police depts., understandably. Got some good press, though, made the wire service, generated some interest, but, after a year or so, never got off the ground, mostly because of logistical reasons. No internet then.
I focused on a case or two locally, here in Sampson County, one while writing briefly for a newspaper, the other a case a reporter told me about. On the first the suspected, but unindicted, killer paid me a visit, not that it bothered me, thinking I didn't know who he was. The other was the five-year-old case of a missing boy whose grandmother sent me word through a local character that I'd better not come around asking questions. Being tied into the business and trying to make a living made it difficult to pursue the challenges.
Something like that.
Noticed the bread loaf thingy on your site. Will take a closer look in the coming days.