by JHowatt | Jan 22, 2021 | Crime Writing
Barbara Bien Talks About Her Peanut-Butter and Jelly Son January 2021. Camarillo, California. Thirty-eight years have passed since I interviewed Barbara Bien, mother of Steven Wood, the seventeenth victim of Freeway Killer, Bill Bonin. The memory of that interview is...
by JHowatt | Jan 13, 2021 | Crime Writing
Two Intruders, Four Victims, and A Brilliant Storyteller I remember the chilly night in San Francisco, with the Bay Bridge off in the distance, when Truman Capote’s classic, In Cold Blood, lured me from a tiresome television program and into my reading chair wrapped...