Chaucer’s Book Talk Emmy & Peabody Award Winning Journalist Tamara Leitner
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Wed, Jun 14 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
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3321 State Street Santa Barbara, CA 93105
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Chaucer's Books
Chaucer’s Books (3321 State Street) will host Peabody and Emmy award-winning journalist and local author Tamara Leitner for an in-store book signing of her book “Don’t Say a Thing” on Wednesday, June 14 at 6 p.m.
In “Don’t Say a Thing: A Predator, A Pursuit, And The Women Who Persevered”, comes a powerful true-crime memoir, an Emmy Award-winning journalist seeks closure in a decades-long series of crimes and freedom from her own personal demons.
In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims–more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways. Tamara’s twenty-year compulsion to follow the investigation began.
She needed to question a failed system. She needed to know the women whose lives were irrevocably altered. And she needed to face the root of her obsession with Hull and his crimes.
In interviewing, befriending, and profoundly connecting with Hull’s survivors, Tamara crafts a unique true-crime narrative. It not only reveals the struggles of the justice system to help victims of sexual violence but explores how these resilient women–and Tamara herself–strove to reclaim their power in the wake of indelible trauma.
About the Author
Tammy Leitner is a 12-time Emmy-award-winning broadcast and print investigative journalist. She has worked as a network correspondent reporting on The Today Show, Nightly News, and MSNBC. Before that, she was an investigative reporter in New York City, Chicago, and Phoenix. Her investigations have taken her across the world. She was awarded a George Foster Peabody and an Edward R. Murrow for her international investigation into a U.S. government cover-up that revealed American soldiers had been forced to bury Agent Orange on a South Korean military base, leading to illnesses and deaths in countless innocent victims.