David Story Allen has been teaching and writing about history for three decades. He interviewed police, attorneys and a young witness to a grisly crime scene to compile this thoroughly sourced account of ruined lives that has never been told. His reporting for the Monadnock Ledger-Transcript included covering crimes in towns in the southern Granite State. He was part of the team which earned the New Hampshire Press Association’s 2024 General Excellence Prize for Distinguished Journalism. His essays have also appeared in the Manchester Union Leader, the Milford Cabinet, and Michigan’s Northern Express. The author of two published novels, he earned degrees from Syracuse, the University of New Hampshire and Harvard and lives in the Monadnock Region.