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In Defense of My Mother

How I Ended My Family’s Cycle of Violence and Sexual Abuse

36 min readAug 14, 2021

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In Defense of My Mother

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The True Story of Patience Worth, the Novel Writing Ghost

In 1913, a St Louis Housewife named Pearl Curran claimed she took dictation from a medieval spirit and produced award-winning literature

15 min readNov 5, 2021

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The True Story of Patience Worth, the Novel Writing Ghost

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The Ghost in My Old House is Me

I Went “Real Life” on a Trauma-Induced Reccurring Dream and Lived to Write About the Experience

5 min readOct 27, 2021

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The Ghost in My Old House is Me

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Rocks, Shared Happiness, and an Honorable Mention

Expressing My Gratitude the Long Way

7 min readOct 26, 2021

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Rocks, Shared Happiness, and an Honorable Mention

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Heather Monroe

The Cruel Murder of Dorothy Schneider

How one man's dream helped solve the 1928 abduction and murder of a little girl from Michigan

13 min readOct 20, 2021

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The Cruel Murder of Dorothy Schneider

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Lessons from History

How a Thrift Store Purchase Led Me on an Adventure Through the History of Los Angeles

Sometimes we find community in unlikely places

8 min readOct 7, 2021

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How a Thrift Store Purchase Led Me on an Adventure Through the History of Los Angeles

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The Murder of Cherry de St Maurice, Queen of the Underworld

Murdered in 1913, Californa’s wealthiest madam’s true identity is now lost to time

18 min readOct 5, 2021

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The Murder of Cherry de St Maurice, Queen of the Underworld

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The Disappearance of Edith Wolfskill, Empress of the World

The questionable 1929 disappearance and lonely death of one of California’s wealthiest women

16 min readJun 13, 2021

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The Disappearance of Edith Wolfskill, Empress of the World

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The Child Murders of Mack Ray Edwards

His California murder spree spanned two terrifying decades and left a trail of missing children who may never be recovered.

18 min readJun 9, 2021

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The Child Murders of Mack Ray Edwards

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The Smalltown Murder of Marjorie Winn

A 17-year-old homecoming queen from Redlands, California, shot to death by an unknown bandit turned murderer

9 min readMar 12, 2021

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The Smalltown Murder of Marjorie Winn

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Heather Monroe

Heather Monroe

Welcome readers! Heather Monroe is a genealogist and writer who resides in California with her partner and their nine children. •True Crime• History• Memoir•

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