The Musical Innertube - Volume 2, Number 189 - Murder, Mystery and Magic with Katherine Ramsland and Ruth Setton

Katherine Ramsland has played chess with serial killers, dug up the dead,worked with profilers, and camped out in haunted crime scenes. As a professor of forensic psychology and an investigative consultant (like her main character, Annie Hunter), she’s always vigilant for unique angles and intriguing characters. She spent five years working with “BTK” serial killer Dennis Rader to write his autobiography, Confession of a Serial Killer, and has been featured as an expert in over 200 true crime documentaries. The author of 69 books, she’s been a forensic consultant for CSI, Bones and The Alienist, an executive producer on Murder House Flip and A&E’s Confession of a Serial Killer, and a commentator on 48 Hours, 20/20, The Today Show, Dr. Oz, Nightline, Larry King Live, Nancy Grace and other shows. She blogs regularly for Psychology Today and once wrote extensively for CourtTV’s Crime Library. She’s become the go-to expert for the most extreme, deviant and bizarre forms of criminal behavior, which offers great background for her Nut Cracker Investigations series.

Check out Katherine's blog:
http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/shadow-boxing

Ruth Knafo Setton was born in Morocco, a few hours from the Djma el Fna’a, the fabled square of Marrakech, where every night for the past thousand years, the storyteller weaves a web of magic around his audience. Setton must have absorbed the imaginative power of story because when she received her first diary, the first words she wrote were: “I want to be a writer.” Years later, she studied magic with some of the world’s greatest magicians and wondered if she could recreate the sense of wonder they created with a pen instead of a wand. Among other things, Setton has survived being sawed in half, and then in thirds. She broke free from a straitjacket in front of an audience of thirty male magicians. She sailed around the world on a ship (three times) and taught courses in literature and writing while typhoons rocked the ship and waves crashed against the windows. She flew in a hot air balloon over the alien moon landscape of Cappadocia, Turkey, and attended a sacred gathering of Huichol shamans in the Sierra Madre Mountains where they ritually sacrificed a goat.
Professionally, she is the author of the novels, The Road to Fez, and the forthcoming Zigzag Girl. She is the recipient of fellowships and awards from the National Endowment of the Arts, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts, PEN, and Writer’s Digest. Her stories have won First Prize in the Launch Pad Prose Competition, the Katherine Anne Porter Award for Fiction, the Rick diMarinis Fiction Award, Saturday Evening Post’s Great American Fiction contest, and the Jerry Jazz Musician Fiction Award. Her feature film s… Read More