Bridgeport Public Library : Summer Reading for Adults FINALE!
Bridgeport, WV – The Bridgeport Public Library will host WV authors Daleen Berry and Geoffrey C. Fuller on Tuesday, July 29, 2014 from 5:00pm to 8:00pm for a special Summer Reading for Adults Finale! Berry and Fuller are co-authors of The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese: The Truth Behind the Headlines and Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese, the latter is due out on July 8, 2014. Berry and Fuller will discuss their experiences on the local case that gripped the nation. A light dinner will be offered and the evening will end with a book signing and dessert. Seating is limited to 50 attendees.
Berry will also discuss Sister of Silence, her memoir of domestic violence and hardship in rural West Virginia. Fuller will also discuss Full Bone Moon, his fictional depiction of the 1970 “co-ed murders” of Morgantown. Both books are in the library’s collection. The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese: The Truth Behind the Headlines is published in digital format only and is accessible through the library’s membership to the WV DELI at wvdeli.lib.overdrive.com.
All are invited to hear the perspectives of these WV authors and more about the case that was featured on “Dateline” and "Dr. Phil!” Thank you for participating in Summer Reading for Adults at the Bridgeport Public Library!
If you have questions about this event, please contact Sarah Nora at 304-842-8248.
About The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese: The Truth Behind the Headlines
Journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller give you the little-known details behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders of our time.
One hot July night, three popular, pretty girls snuck out for a midnight joyride. Only two came back.
Stabbed so savagely she was almost decapitated, Skylar Neese was left bloody on the side of the road, buried beneath rocks and branches.
For six months, people wondered and waited, hoping Skylar would return. Instead, the community was stunned when Rachel Shoaf confessed to Skylar’s murder. The budding actress and singer accused the third member of the inseparable trio, Shelia Eddy, of being the ringleader. People were even more shocked to learn the murder was not a crime of sudden rage—but premeditated.
Now, friends, family, and the public are left with so many unanswered questions: Why did investigators believe her murder was connected to a rash of bank robberies and an interstate heroin ring? What part did drugs and social media play in Skylar’s killing and its aftermath? How did other high school students and even her own mother help discover who killed Skylar? And, if Rachel’s confession is true, what would lead two teenage girls to kill their best friend in one of the most horrific crimes in recent years?
With firsthand interviews with those close to the case and written in cooperation with the victim's parents, Dave and Mary Neese, The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese is the most comprehensive, detailed and in-depth source on the Skylar Neese murder.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/The-Savage-Murder-Skylar-Neese-ebook/dp/B00I11RJG8
About Pretty Little Killers: The Truth Behind the Savage Murder of Skylar Neese
In Pretty Little Killers, journalist Daleen Berry and investigator Geoffrey Fuller expand upon their New York Times bestselling ebook The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese to give you even more information behind one of the most horrific and shocking murders of our time. Including over 100 pages of new material, Pretty Little Killers shares the latest theories and answers the questions that have left many people baffled.
After killer Shelia Eddy pled guilty to first degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison and Rachel Shoaf was sentenced to thirty years for second-degree murder, family, friends, investigators, and other key sources reveal the facts you would have learned if the case had gone to trial.
Including specific details drawn from Rachel’s confession, Pretty Little Killers looks at the crime through the eyes of the victim and killers, providing intimate testimony from the pages of Rachel’s personal journal, Skylar’s diary and school papers, and court records.
Berry and Fuller examine all this, including previously unreported details about Rachel and Shelia’s rumored lesbian relationship and explain why more than one investigator believes Skylar’s murder was a thrill kill.
Most important, Pretty Little Killers provides a satisfying answer to Skylar’s final question: “Why?”
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Pretty-Little-Killers-Behind-Savage-ebook/dp/B00KIX3WCC/ref=sr_1_1?s=digital-text&ie=UTF8&qid=1401895562&sr=1-1&keywords=pretty+little+killers
About Daleen Berry
California native Daleen Berry is the award-winning author of Sister of Silence, which is being used in several colleges and universities, including Johns Hopkins University. Most recently, she received the 2012 Pearl Buck Writing for Social Change award.
She is a keynote speaker at conferences around the country, invited for her insight into attitudes about social issues and the empowerment of women and children.
A freelance writer, her work has appeared most recently in The Daily Beast, XOJane, and The Huffington Post.
Daleen’s next book, Lethal Silence, will be released soon. Berry is also an award-winning journalist who has been covering crime since 1988.
She wrote and published law enforcement journals for the West Virginia Deputy Sheriffs’ Association and the West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police during the 1990?s.
Her awards include first-place for investigative journalism from the West Virginia Press Association, two second-place awards from the Maryland-Delaware-DC Press Association for her weekly newspaper column, and as a student editor, she also led her staff to a record number of awards from the Society for Collegiate Journalists. Berry currently lives in West Virginia.
Source: http://www.daleenberry.com/daleenberry/?page_id=379
About Sister of Silence by Daleen Berry
An amazing true-crime story about a quiet girl who married her rapist—and then spent 10 years trying to find her own voice.
Sister of Silence unfolds faster than you can keep up, and leaves you wanting more, when you finally finish the last page.A victim of child sex abuse at age thirteen, and forced into a shotgun wedding after her high school was featured on national television for having the highest number of pregnant teens in the U.S., Daleen Berry found herself married to a coal miner who kept her barefoot and pregnant. By age twenty-one Berry had four children.
Sister of Silence is the amazing story of her personal journey, and how she went from being a teen mom to an award-winning journalist determined to break the silence that shatters women and children’s lives.
About Geoffrey C. Fuller
Geoffrey C. Fuller is the co-author of The Savage Murder of Skylar Neese, a New York Times bestseller, and the recently released Pretty Little Killers, a more in-depth examination of Skylar’s 2012 stabbing murder by her two best friends. A few years ago Fuller investigated the unsolved “coed murders,” a baffling double murder-decapitation that also took place in his hometown of Morgantown, West Virginia. Working with a retired lieutenant colonel of the West Virginia State Police, Fuller examined decades old records of the criminal investigation, interviewed surviving witnesses, and tracked a number of suspects who had been neglected in the original investigations. His 2011 crime thriller, Full Bone Moon, though not based on actual records, was inspired by the killings.
Fuller has written articles for a number of literary and commercial magazines, from Appalachian Heritage to Dirt Bike magazine. As a regular contributor to Writer’s Digest, Fuller served on the magazine’s advisory board for a number of years. Along the way, Fuller was the only person in West Virginia awarded prestigious writing fellowships in all three prose categories: fiction, nonfiction, and memoir. Fuller has also edited for individuals and publishing houses for 25 years, working in every phase from developmental editing to final proofing and production. He currently lives in Morgantown and is always looking for new projects.
About Full Bone Moon by G. Cameron Fuller
Someone is killing West Virginia University students. Again. Six years ago, two WVU freshmen were last seen hitchhiking back to their dorms after seeing a movie in downtown Morgantown, West Virginia. Their bodies were later found in the dark woods south of town. E.P. Clawson was convicted of the murders, but Michael Chase, a reporter for the Herald-Dispatch, never thought Clawson was guilty-a belief that nearly cost him his career. Now the murders have started again. Female WVU students are disappearing, and their defiled bodies are found with ritual markings. Full Bone Moon follows Michael Chase as he tracks the ritual killers through the streets, underground tunnels, and forests of Morgantown.
Inspired by actual murders in Morgantown in 1970, Full Bone Moon employs the many rumors and speculation that swirled around the Morgantown area after the killings, and continue to this day. Rumors of cult activity, high society complicity, police corruption and coverup, and FBI treachery are woven together in Full Bone Moon, to take you on a wild ride through the Coed Murders as they could have happened had the conjecture proven accurate.
Source: http://www.amazon.com/Full-Bone-Moon-Cameron-Fuller/dp/098299379X