S18 Ep115: The Taken Ones w/ Jess Lourey
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🗓️ 26 September 2023
⏱️ 144 minutes
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Summary
Summer 1980: Despite the local superstition that the Bendy Man haunts the woods, three girls go into a Minnesota forest. Only one comes out, dead silent, her memory gone. The mystery of the Taken Ones captures the nation.
Summer 2022: Cold case detective Van Reed and forensic scientist Harry Steinbeck are assigned a disturbing homicide—a woman buried alive, clutching a heart charm necklace belonging to one of the vanished girls. Van follows her gut. Harry trusts in facts. They’re both desperate to catch a killer before he kills again. They have something else in common: each has ties to the original case in ways they’re reluctant to share.
As Van and Harry connect the crimes of the past and the present, Van struggles with memories of her own nightmarish childhood—and the fear that uncovering the truth of the Taken Ones will lead her down a path from which she, too, may never return. Author of The Taken Ones, Jess Lourey, joins TCT to talk about the new book, it's creation, inspiration, and where she is taking the next chapter!
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Learn more about Jess here: https://jessicalourey.com/
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome man to the best in true crime podcasting this is true crime Tuesday I'm your host Tim Dennis |
| 0:29.1 | I'm excited folks because we have a guest on today that a lot of you have been asking for for the last few years |
| 0:35.5 | We have just Lure in the program and |
| 0:38.6 | We're gonna talk about a book that is out now. It's been out for just a few days |
| 0:44.4 | I had the pleasure of reading this book last week last week into this weekend and I will tell you folks |
| 0:51.0 | this book is outstanding. It's called the Taken ones a read and Steinbeck thriller and |
| 0:57.4 | and |
| 0:58.4 | It is a book of fiction. However, there is |
| 1:02.3 | some elements of it that |
| 1:04.3 | Kind of extended into the here and now and into this world. It takes place here in the Twin Cities and |
| 1:10.4 | there are a lot of elements that |
| 1:12.6 | Literally exist right here in in this world and we'll get into it with Jess and tell you why and |
| 1:18.7 | Why it exists in this world |
| 1:21.7 | To give me an idea. It's centered around the Minneapolis Police Department and the BCA the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension |
| 1:28.0 | They're real they're real police departments and real real criminal elements |
| 1:33.6 | although the characters are fictional and |
| 1:37.2 | The case itself is is an interesting case that we'll talk to Jess more about here in just a moment |
| 1:44.2 | Jess Laurie if you don't know who this author is and by gosh, I think you're sleeping under a rock |
| 1:49.0 | She is amazing. She's the Amazon charts best-selling Edgar nominated ITW Thriller |
| 1:55.3 | Anthony and Minnesota book |
| 1:57.3 | award-winning author of young adults |
| 2:00.1 | Magical realism crime fiction nonfiction and children's book |
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