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Hello and welcome to True Crime Daily the podcast bringing you high profile

and under the radar cases from across the country every week. I'm Billy Jensen

and this is Owen Michael. Hello.

Today is Thursday September 26th, 2019 and our guest is Amanda Lamb.

Amanda is a crime reporter at News Station W-R-A-L-T-V and Raleigh-Derm, North Carolina, and she's also written eight non-fiction books

and she wrote her first novel, A Psychological Thriller slash Murder Mystery called Dead Last, which is set to be

published in May of 2020.

How you doing, Amanda?

Great, thanks for having me.

I appreciate it.

So Amanda, in your bio, one of the things that jumps out at me is that you went to your first murder trial at 13

I did you know when people ask me how I became a crime reporter I say organically it's in my blood so both of my parents were lawyers when I was growing up and my dad was the district attorney in our town and you know this is pre- Internet

pre everything I mean three channels on TV kind of thing.

And I knew nothing about murder cases and my dad really wanted me to see what he did for

living and so he took me to the courthouse and let me watch some of his biggest trials.

He had one.

There were, it was a trial about these three brothers.

They were kind of like rural mafia, if you will. They were stealing farm equipment.

They were named the Johnson brothers and I just remember going to that trial sitting there with

these cops all around me and watching my dad do these very Perry Mason things

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