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Thank you for joining me for today's episode of Once Upon a Crime.

In this series, written in blood,

I detail cases of writers are authors who have committed crimes.

This time, I'll tell you about two writers

who both became wife killers,

and then hid their crimes from the public.

First up, a successful comedy and television writer

seems to have it all.

A successful career, a loving wife, a beautiful home, and a new baby.

But when his career takes a turn for the worse, things at home begin to deteriorate.

When his crime is discovered, it would shock his friends, family, and the public.

This is the case of J.J. Paulson.

John James Paulson was born on November 23, 1959. When his mother became pregnant, she was just 15 years old and unmarried.

Paulson's parents tried to make things work for a while,

but eventually divorced. The family often didn't have enough food to eat and had to make do with

whatever they'd sometimes receive from charity food banks. Paulson once shared a memory with a

colleague of having only a bag of radishes to eat. He began to write poetry in high school

and was soon recognized by his teachers

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