Author, podcaster and Baylor alumna Claire St. Amant explains her story to the audience during her conversation and signing event on Monday night at Fabled Bookshop & Cafe in Waco. Mary Thurmond | Lariat Photo Editor
Investigative journalist Claire St. Amant developed and produced crime stories for CBS News for nearly a decade. She is credited on over 20 episodes of 48 Hours, including an assassination attempt on a judge in Austin, a cold case kidnapping in Colorado, and a murder-for-hire sting on two doctors in Houston. In 2019, St. Amant began contributing to 60 Minutes with “The Ranger and the Serial Killer.”
She built her unconventional career one story at a time, rising up through local media to national television and her own network podcast, Final Days on Earth with Claire St. Amant.
Currently, St. Amant is the Lillian and Rupert Radford Distinguished Visiting Professor in Journalism at Baylor University, where she is teaching an original course on podcasting.
St. Amant’s debut memoir was released in February from BenBella Books and distributed by Simon & Schuster. “Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television” is an inside account of what to takes to succeed in the ruthless, knives-out world of true crime TV. Read The Baylor Lariat’s coverage of her Feb. 17 book release event in Waco.
A returned Peace Corps Volunteer with eclectic tastes, she is always on the hunt for her next adventure.
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