All right, 3-2-1. Hi, this is William Ramsey. Welcome to William Ramsey Investigates. On tonight's show, I have a very special guest. He comes to us from California, and he is the son of an author of a book that was published in 1995. His name is John Spearing, S-P-I-E-R-I-N-G. His father was Frank. He published a book titled, Who Killed

Polly, the true story behind the abduction and murder of Polly Klaus. It was a very famous

case. Myself growing up in California in Northern California was all over the news. It happened

in the Bay Area, particularly Petaluma in the Marin County.

The book was published in July 1st, 1995.

Unfortunately, Mr. Spearing, Frank Spearing has passed away, but I'm delighted that his son has

taken time out of his day to talk about the book.

He sent me a bunch of information, which I read over.

And like I said, I'm very familiar with the case, at least from the media

perspective, but we're going to hear a different perspective tonight from John. So John Spearing,

are you there? Yes. Hey, William. Thank you for having me. Awesome. Well, thank you for agreeing to the

interview. For people who haven't heard your name or your father's name, can you talk a little bit about

his work and your kind of association with this book, Who Killed Polly?

Sure. My dad was a true crime writer. He started out actually as an insurance investigator in the 60s and was really good at found that he was great at investigating cases.

And he also was a playwright.

He started out as a playwright, but he also wanted to be an author and write books.

So he did both.

And he got his break writing the man who got Capone,

which went on to become the basis for Brian De Palmas Untouchables movie with Sean Connery.

And then he wrote another book about Jack the Ripper, which became a bestseller worldwide. It was

banned in England naming Jack the Ripper as a member of the royal family, Prince Edward Duke of

Clarence, Queen Victoria's grandson. And then he, and that was with Doubleday. And then for Random

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