Mandy and Liz traveled to Hampton to meet Sandy Smith for the first time in 2019 to learn more about her son, Stephen, and his 2015 death. They also paint a picture of what it was like living in Hampton County. https://youtu.be/68Z1koJx_CY Sandy — who found herself...
Before dating apps and sliding into DMs was popular, there was "waving" on Facebook. Mandy had been featured as a top bachelorette in a charity spread for a local Hilton Head magazine and received some attention from random guys, but then there was David, who "waved"...
After Mandy and Liz noticed a local woman named Jeannine posting information about the boat crash on Facebook, Mandy reached out. Jeannine responded within minutes and told her about a video circulating on Facebook that was taken moments before the crash occurred. In...
Connor Cook called 911 the night of the boat crash on Archers Creek. In the audio below, you can hear the raw emotions of Connor and the other girls that were on the boat as they called for help and realized Mallory was missing. In the initial days after the boat...
Right after college, Mandy accepted a position as the editor of The Daily Guide in Waynesville, Missouri, before transitioning to the editor at Commerical-News in Danville, Illinois. Although there were beautiful sunsets, cold midwest winters allowed her to realize...
by Carolyn Murnick Titles can be such a tricky process. Often a project sells to a publisher with one title, and it goes through many iterations as the manuscript gets ready for publication. So many considerations come into play: mood, key words, and what’s called...