Marilyn J. Bardsley
Author of After Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Crimescape)
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Psychopath (Crimescape) 1 copy
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- female
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- USA
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- true crime writer
marketing executive
financial advisor - Short biography
- Marilyn J. Bardsley is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and the chief executive of Crimescape®, a collection of nineteen true crime books. She is the former executive editor and founder of Time Warner’s Crime Library, the premier true crime site on the Internet for more than a decade.
Bardsley has written extensively on true crime and is an expert on serial killers. She has appeared on news programs and documentaries for the History Channel, The Learning Channel, Court TV, and Carolina Public Television. Her Crime Library feature story on the Atlanta child murders, co-authored with Rachael Bell, was required reading for the police task force investigating the Green River serial murder case. Her most popular feature articles were on Jeffrey Dahmer, Jack the Ripper, Charles Manson, the Boston Strangler, the Son of Sam, Charles Starkweather, Albert Fish, the Hillside Stranglers, Leopold and Loeb, and Ted Bundy. Ms. Bardsley wrote Crime Library online biographies of Al Capone, Eliot Ness, and J. Edgar Hoover.
Before she began her “life of crime,” Bardsley was an internet marketing executive at MCI and British Telecom North America and an advisor to executives of LG Electronics on internet investments.
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The author is a true crime writer and it shows here with the focus on facts, particularly the sordid and tawdry ones with little analysis until near the end. There are some additional biographical details and facts throughout the book that add to the story.
There is one interesting sentence where the author, Marolyn J. Bardsley, after recounting Jim William's version of the shooting as self-defense, inserts her opinion: "I have no reason to disbelieve him. I would have done the same."… (more)