Awesome. Okay. We're live. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates on today's show. I have a very special guest. His name is Emerson Murray, and he just wrote a really fascinating book. I love reading through it. I'm from Northern California. I know the area that he writes about. The title of his book is Murder Capital of the world. The Santa Cruz community looks back at the John Linley Frazier, Herbert Mullen, and Edmund Kemper

murder sprees of the early 1970s.

It has 12-5 star ratings right now on Amazon.

And this is Emerson Murray's second book.

His first book was titled,

Bruiser Brody, and it's a primary source biography published by Crowbar Press.

Emerson has written articles.

He paints and makes cassettes and CDs.

He grew up in the San Lorenzo Valley and still lives in Santa Cruz County,

where a lot of this takes place with his wife, two kids, and two dogs. You can visit his website, which is his full name, Emerson Murray.com.

And another one for this book is the title of the book, which is Murder Capital of the World

Altogether.com. You can hear it listen about this, very fascinating, very well-written books. So Emerson

Murray, welcome to the show. Thanks for bringing to the area. Yeah, thank you very much,

William, for having me. I really appreciate it. Can you kind of talk about your background?

I know the locale is very important to this book, where you are and your father, and then what led

you to put together this really

fascinating book, Murder Capital.

Yeah.

So as some of your guests may know or may not know, Santa Cruz, California in the early

1970s, we sort of experienced or lived through the horror of having John Linley-Frasier,

a mass murder,

commit a horrible series of crimes here,

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