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Get a peek behind the curtain from the author of Stolen Secrets and see real historical documents that she used in writing the book.
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Buried Secrets is a work of fiction. But in these bonus materials, you can read about the real-life cases that helped inspire the story in Buried Secrets - inspiration that came from great mysteries and scandals in Texas history.
Read actual newspaper articles about the case involving the bloody events that took place in Room 636 of the Gunter hotel on February 8, 1965 when a housekeeper used her passkey to enter the wrong room at the hotel and stumbled into an abattoir. A startled, blood-covered man grabbed a bloody bundle, pushed past the stunned housekeeper, and disappeared down the fire stairs. Two days later, the suspect fatally shot himself in the head when police attempted to enter his room at the Saint Anthony hotel a few blocks from the Gunter.
See historical articles and handwritten memoranda about the Council House Fight/Massacre regarding the events of March 19, 1840 when a group of sixty-five Comanche people arrived in San Antonio for a peace council with the Texians. Shortly after their arrival, a disagreement arose, and many of the Comanche visitors and several Texians were killed or wounded in the council house where the negotiations were taking place. The event is a painful and regrettable event in Texas history.
Learn about the amazing story of Fred Zain who was originally hired as a chemist/serologist by the West Virginia state crime lab and later moved to San Antonio, where, in 1989, he became the head of physical evidence for the Bexar County medical examiner’s office.
During the appeals process for one of Zain’s cases, the court appointed a special judge and panel of scientists to investigate the work performed by Zain while working in the West Virginia state crime lab. The report found that Zain’s work was of such terrible quality that it should not be considered as evidence in any criminal proceeding, not to mention that he had fabricated his educational credentials.
Zain was indicted in West Virginia and in Bexar County, Texas for lying under oath about his test results. But he died of cancer before he was convicted, so he died a legally innocent man.