VIRGINIA A. MCCONNELL teaches English, literature, and speech at Walla Walla Community College's Clarkston Center in Clarkston, Washington./e A native of Syracuse, New York, she has degrees from the College of St. Rose, Purdue University, and Golden Gate University School of Law. She has taught high school in upstate New York and in Sacramento, California, and has practiced law in San Francisco. She lives on 30 acres of land in Idaho. Having researched historical true crimes for many years, she aspires to become the Ann Rule of Victorian true crime.