If there is one thing Claire St. Amant learned real crime stories of crime for CBS ’48 hours “and” 60 minutes “, is that the business was cut. Competitors like NBC” Dateline “and” 20/20 “of ABC, as well as St. The team of Amant CBS itself would go to any length to get an exclusive.
Sometimes St. Amant cultivated a relationship with the families of a victim in the hope of getting an interview, but this connection was mined when an anonymous caller identifying himself as “Claire from 48 hours” sabotaged your inappropriate phone effort for the Vitim family.
Rarely Amant’s relationship with them was shot, but it turned out much smarter.
“As long as I hated being beaten. . . I would win a valuable lesson in the war games that go to the national media, “She writes in” Killer Story: The Truth after the True Crime Television “(Benbella Books, February 18).
After an attack on the troops of peace, St. Amant starts work as a journalist in Dallas. In 2010 she wrote for the People’s Newspaper covering the outskirts of the city, and by 2013 she was the Managing Editor of Start-Up News Dallas.
A story she made in a private school sexual attack had given her what she calls the journalist “Credit on the Street”, so when CBS’s “48 hours” wanted to come to Dallas’ his husband from his “professional manipulative” wife in Dallas, the show asked St. Amant aid to produce an episode.
While St. Amant was excited about the independent opportunity, she was prepared for her. “I actually google” do you do a TV manufacturer? “” St. Writes Amant.
Rare Amant testified a manufacturer more than capable. She provided interviews with the ex-wife and daughter of Dead Hubby and the adult children of the killer woman, plus used her local ties to provide essential evidence from local police.
Rarely Amant’s talent proved enough power to put him into a successful career by producing real CBS crime stories.
Its location also did, as the Lone Star State seemed to lead the nation to bad bad behavior. “You wouldn’t believe how many roads lead to Texas,” she writes.
Like Texas, medical professionals are also highly printed in the TV killing pipeline. “What is the doctors and spouses killed?” Rare amant asks. “Oath” Don’t Damage “seems to have the opposite effect.”
A doctor of the killer she covered was Dr. Leon Jacob, a transplant surgeon from Houston who wanted both and his new girlfriends kidnapped, tortured and killed.
The plan was destroyed when striker Jacob thought he hired simply passed his fee before calling Houston’s police.
Although Jacob’s story is unknown, for St. Amant was a success. She wrote the letter to Jacob in prison, shared calls and visited him in prison.
This led to St. Amant providing a “chair” interview, the industry speaks of when a suspect agreed to speak on the camera.
Rare Amant covered the case of Amarillo -based plastic surgeon, Mike Dixon, too. When his girlfriend left him, Dr. Dixon hired an unemployed pharmaceutical representative named David Shepard to trace and eliminate the new former paramour of the former.
Shepard made, stabbing the man and shooting him to death with an ancient six-shooter (texas!), With authorities that eventually associate him with crime through three silver bars (Texas!) He paid the killer.
As St. Amant successfully persuaded Shepard to talk to her camera, that coup came at a cost when she saw 6’5 ”, 300-LB. The approaching killer for his interview at the prison house.
“Even through Plexiglas, I’m scared without shit,” she writes.
A third deadly doctor St. Amant turned her focus was Alan Wolter of Highland Park.
At the funeral of his wife Wolter gave a tribute to touch for his late love, but when her “accidental drowning” began to be investigated as something worse, Dr. Wolter would become a main suspect.
Rare Amant managed to interview the alleged man, and though it was his day of rest, the wolf appeared in cleaning and a lab coat for their lunch meeting.
But if Fear St. Amant felt looking for the doctor under his dark corridor was almost visceral, was far from the only terror he faces after nearly a decade working on real television.
In 2016 she was on stage in Dallas when a 25-year-old army veteran shot and killed five Dallas policemen and injured nine others. In 2018 she was sent to the Parkland, Fla., On the day a student killed 17 at Marlinest Stoneman Douglas Hs.
A career that covered the bad killings began to be a lot for St. Amant, with photos of the valuable crime scene of the years, she would study and the great stories she would have heard of starting to become genuine nightmare. The parkland may have been the worst, she writes.
“The witness of that raw trauma and seeing so many lives cut or changed permanently touched me deeply,” she says.
In the early 2020s St. Amant told her husband that she would have enough TV on the network. “I feel like we are trafficking in tragedy, and there is no redefinable quality for [stories]”She told him.
Like so many other inherited burnt journalists, St. Amant now runs her podcast – concentrated, startling, in cold unresolved cases.
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