Keith Roysdon is a lifelong writer and journalist. He is the government watchdog reporter at the Star Press in Muncie, Indiana, and has won more than two dozen first-place awards in newspaper contests. In addition to many awards for their work together, he and Douglas Walker won the Kent Cooper Award for story of the year in Indiana for their 2010 Cold Case story on Muncie's most notorious unsolved murders. Roysdon is active on social media, with accounts on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram. Journalist Douglas Walker has covered the criminal justice system in east central Indiana for most of the past three decades. For more than a quarter-century, he has served in reporting and editing roles for the Star Press and its predecessor, the Muncie Evening Press. Walker has received dozens of awards for writing, investigative reporting and public service from journalism organizations. The Ball State University graduate is an eighth-generation resident of the Muncie area.
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Cold Case Muncie
9781467153973
Regular price $23.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%The coldest cases from Middletown, USA
With dozens of unsolved murders spanning decades, Muncie and surrounding Delaware County might have more killings without justice than any American community like it. In 1962, Maggie Mae Fleming was shot to death as she sat in her living room. Paula Garrett was bludgeoned in her home in 1979, and her son, who survived the attack, wants justice. Garth Rector, killed in 2008, could have been murdered by any number of people he knew--or dated.
Journalists and award-winning true crime authors Douglas Walker and Keith Roysdon shine a spotlight on the victims, and on their loved ones and the investigators still hoping for resolution to long-cold murders.
The Westside Park Murders
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On a warm night in September 1985, teenagers Kimberly Dowell and Ethan Dixon were brutally murdered in Westside Park in Muncie, Indiana. Their killer has never been charged. Early on, police focused on a family member of one of the teens as a primary suspect. The investigation even ruled out fantastic scenarios, including a theory that the perpetrator was a Dungeons & Dragons devotee. The case grew cold. Only decades later did a dogged police investigator narrow the scope to a suspect whose name has never been publicly revealed until now. Keith Roysdon and Douglas Walker, authors of Wicked Muncie and Muncie Murder & Mayhem, have followed the investigation into the Westside Park murders for decades and, for the first time, report the complete and untold story.
Wicked Muncie
9781467136655
Regular price $21.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Explore the notorious and unusual side of Muncie's history.
Muncie is the classic small American city. But for much of the past two centuries, the city fell victim to murder, corruption and the bizarre. Mayor Rollin Bunch went to prison for mail fraud, while his police commissioner faced a murder rap. Viola Babe Swartz ran a brothel out of a truck stop that was raided by police at least a dozen times but ran for sheriff in the 1974 primary election. June Holland, of the locally famous Holland triplets, killed her neighbor for refusing to sell her house.
