Sneaking into jails, dining with hitmen: True crime journalist releases memoir

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

By Josh Siatkowski
Staff Writer, The Baylor Lariat

Crime journalist, Baylor alum and newly-published author Claire St. Amant took to Fabled Bookshop Monday evening to promote her new memoir about the true crime genre: “Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television.

St. Amant is something of an expert when it comes to true crime. She’s helped create over 20 episodes of CBS’ hit crime show “48 Hours.” She hosts not one, but two true crime podcasts. She even has a television series in the works. Now, she’s telling the story behind those stories in “Killer Story: The Truth Behind True Crime Television.”

“Killer Story” is not a memoir about the chilling shows that make their way to television screens, but one about the behind the scenes. For St. Amant, these behind the scenes stories involve a lot of “telling on myself,” as she recounts experiences like sneaking into a jail to talk to a killer, eating dinner with a hitman, looking into the “void” and “ink blot” eyes of merciless killers and even being detained herself.

Read the full story at The Baylor Lariat.

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