Publisher’s
Weekly offers an interview with Mark Bowden, the author of a new true crime
book, The Last Stone.
In Bowden’s
The Last Stone (Atlantic Monthly, Apr.), detectives try to find out what
happened to 13-year-old Katherine and 11-year-old Sheila Lyon, sisters who
vanished from a Maryland mall in 1975.
What surprised you the most about how the case unfolded?
The duration and difficulty of
the interrogation was far beyond anything I imagined, and it fascinated me.
With no physical evidence and, initially, no witnesses, every bit of
information about the crime had to come from the suspect himself. And the
suspect, Lloyd Welch, was so compulsive a liar that his behavior bordered on
comical. He also had every reason in the world not to tell the truth. Building
the case against him meant traveling down a long path of deliberate untruths,
stories designed to mislead. The detectives had to somehow sift the truth from
a mountain of lies.
You can read the rest of the interview via the below link:
https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/79338-sifting-truth-from-lies-pw-talks-with-mark-bowden.html
You can also read my Counterterrorism magazine Q&A with Mark Bowden concerning his book, Hue 1968, Black Hawk Down, Killing Pablo, and his other books, via the below link
www.pauldavisoncrime.com/2017/12/my-q-with-mark-bowden-author-of-hue.html
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