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The Art Curious podcast is sponsored by Anchorlight. For more information about all of Anchorlight's artistic and creative endeavors,

please visit Anchorlightrolly.com. Just a quick note that today's episode contains details of a violent

and graphic nature. The crimes are over a century old, but the information is still horrifying.

Please take care, and you have been warned.

During my first year of graduate school, I spent hours upon hours each day shuffling from the

classrooms to the library, checking out huge stacks of books in preparation for one of the

four or five research papers required for my courses. You think that after being

surrounded by books and reading, reading, reading all day, that I would need a change a pace to blow

off steam. And you'd be right. So I did my fair share of attending football games,

binging on reality TV, and frequenting the campus pub. But if I am being really honest,

my favorite place to go wasn't to a bar or a club.

It was the bookstore. I loved getting lost in the aisles, perusing anything and everything,

and usually spending too much money to add to my already overflowing bookshelves.

I remember one day when I was browsing a new releases table and one particular book caught my eye.

What I noticed first was the dust jacket. Its background was an old handwritten letter,

across which a huge font in bright red letters, the color of blood, trumpeted the author's name,

Patricia Cornwell. It seemed like yet another crime novel, one among hundreds, and I had never

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