by JHowatt | Jun 30, 2020 | Crime Writing
One of the hundreds of questions I asked myself and Detective St. John during the course of writing this book was “why”? Why did Bill Bradford (photographer) and Bill Bonin (truck driver) become serial killers? They both had mothers and fathers. They both... 
by JHowatt | Jun 23, 2020 | Crime Writing
June 13, 1983 – I’d prepared for my first interview with Scott Fraser (best friend of Freeway Killer, Bill Bonin) with careful attention to every detail – the questions I planned to ask and the sketchy background information on Mr. Fraser I’d been able to... 
by JHowatt | Jun 16, 2020 | Crime Writing
Camarillo, CA. 1983. If our phone rang after 11:00 p.m. it was usually the hospital with one of Jim’s patients in labor. Tonight, the familiar deep voice belonged to Detective St. John. “I know it’s late,” he said in a steady, measured tone, “but I had to call you.” I...