One of the first things I realized when I started working on my capstone project in early 2017 is advances in technology weren’t always going to make the project easier. That became abundantly clear when I tried to track down Bob and Tracy Keller’s phone number. Ironically, that would have been much easier 20 years […]
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Why am I here? I often asked myself that at the end of 2009 and beginning of 2010. I’d just moved to Tulsa, the last stop in a nomadic journalism career that included six newspapers, four states, nine cities and 12 residences in 11 years. Some of that frantic journey was about working my way
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Brenda: Today’s a big one. You know that, of course – you would have celebrated your 45th birthday. It only seemed fitting to make an important announcement to celebrate: My book about your life is close to becoming reality. After seven years of research and writing, we have a tentative release date of August 2024.
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This portion of the book I’m writing about Brenda Keller is from Chapter 13, which describes her funeral service from Oct. 23, 1991. While Beverly Rue and her husband Steve were at the service, a small bug crawled toward them and several others, and somebody nearby attempted to squash it. He waved the person off,
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Nearly three years ago, I decided I was going to write about Brenda Keller, the 12-year-old pastor’s daughter who was murdered in tiny Dover, Kansas, for my capstone project in grad school. Before I started, I called the Kellers and asked for permission. It’s the only way I’d write about Brenda, who grew up a
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