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Criminal
It was initially intended to be a non-fiction book about the Rogers murder case, but eventually published as a novel in 2003, with 85% of it being factual accounts of the investigation.
They published all of their findings in a book.
— Episode: Open Case
Episode: Open Case
It was initially intended to be a non-fiction book about the Rogers murder case, but eventually published as a novel in 2003, with 85% of it being factual accounts of the investigation.
They published all of their findings in a book.
They'd expected it to be a non-fiction book but in 2003, The Icebox Murders was published as a novel.
85 percent of it is straight fact and it was a matter of Martha and I arm wrestled over the other 15 percent.
I mean we just literally rolled around because my first intent was this growling gritting of my teeth and going by golly this will never be written as a novel and you know there are going to be footnotes everywhere and so forth and we're going to reference the specific documents.
It's an incredibly dense novel moving back and forth through time and going down these long paths with side characters. Just the sheer amount of detail that they put into this book makes you understand the level of research and really it's rather violent in parts.