7 True Crime Authors Who Became Part of the Story

Few crime authors have gotten as close to their subject as Sebastian Junger. In the 1960s, Boston was being terrorized by a serial killer known as the Boston Strangler. As police were following false leads, it turns out the killer was hiding out in the home of Junger’s parents, where he was employed. There’s even a chilling photo in the book of Junger and his mother with the Boston Strangler, Albert DeSalvo, smiling behind them. One of his possible victims, an elderly woman named Bessie Goldberg, lived just a few doors away.

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But the Strangler isn’t the only focus of Junger’s book—Junger is fascinated by the murder of Bessie Goldberg. Roy Smith, a house cleaner, was convicted of the murder, but many believe that DeSalvo may have been the true killer…