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Good column.

I have wondered how any people are still alive in England based on all the “soft core” murder mysteries that I watch.

I agree that when the serial killer enters the story it is a kind of cheating. The SK can & will do anything and so all that remains is incarceration or death by cop and The End.

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Also, the Idaho college student murders took me to Connelly's Desert Star. They used investigative genetic genealogy. Maybe they got the Gilgo Beach guy the same way, going through the pizza box and harassing phone calls. It's like going to class, we learn through great crime fiction writers. Still remember that hurricane.

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Also the pimp remembered his truck.

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Truth is stranger than fiction. When I saw it break on the news I went straight to Sunrise Highway. Fioion was definitely blending with fact. I forgot who the killer was in the book. I'll have to reread.

The victim who escaped during the hurricane and then perished. Was she based on fact? Her luck was so bad. Just wondering. I can still remember that scene. I bet your phone and messages really did blow up. Ciao.

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No, the escaped victim is a figment of my imagination.

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