Goodreads asked Craig Pittman:

What mystery in your own life could be a plot for a book?

Craig Pittman Years after we bought our house, we discovered that the prior occupant had been a suspect in a triple homicide. He didn't do it, of course -- the cops later caught the real killer and he's already been tried and executed. I covered the trial and later interviewed him on Death Row. He sent me several letters from prison in which he dotted his i's with smiley faces. But it occurred to me that if the prior resident HAD been the killer, what a nifty set-up for a mystery that would be.

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