Last Tuesday afternoon the paperback launch of our book "The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer" was canceled at the 11th hour by East End Books in Provincetown, MA, after a series of online bullying, insults, veiled threats, and outright lies about the book and its authors appeared in our email and across social media....
Tony was tired, now that it was all over. He’d never been so tired. Tired of everything—struggling to find work, scraping together the monthly payment to Avis, even taking the drugs—no, especially the drugs. He always seemed to be too high or too low—too many bennies or not enough. He couldn’t imagine quitting, but it was all so exhausting. He watched the beam from the Highland Lighthouse course above him. He could never seem to get ahead; someone was always preventing him from the success he deserved, success he was [...]
Since its publication in March of 2021, we've heard from an incredibly wide gamut of readers—from those who suffered similar childhoods, to True Crime fans who are struck by the unique two-voice narrative, and how it allowed them to both loathe and yet better understand a serial killer.
It's been an incredible first year for The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer. Check out our favorite moments from 2021
Explores some of the recent press coverage for the Costa case and illuminates a few of the dangers that arise when a non-fiction writer forgets to ask themselves the question, “yes, but is it true?” before they publish.
Three ways to gift The Babysitter: My Summers with a Serial Killer, perfect for any book lover on your holiday list.
Co-author Liza Rodman discusses "The Babysitter" with Dani Shapiro on season five of her podcast, Family Secrets.
"Tony had a way of making a story so convincing you could almost see it in front of you."Steve Grund During the week of February 15, 1969, while the Barnstable County Medical Examiner tried in vain to identify the remains of the young woman found in the Truro woods on February 8th, teams of police and cadaver dogs continued to search the Truro woods. In the winter quiet, an occasional State Police helicopter could be heard overhead. And the year round residents in a usually slumbering Provincetown were wide awake, [...]
In The Babysitter: My Summers With a Serial Killer, it seems every day of the year represents some gruesome milestone, but perhaps none so dark as today. On February 8th in 1969, the dismembered, defiled body of a young woman was found in a shallow grave alongside Old Proprietors Road in the Truro woods on Cape Cod. The police had been searching the woods for two missing women from Providence, RI, but they stumbled on something far more sinister. It would take a full two months for police to identify [...]
On February 2, 1969, Carl Benson took his usual shortcut through the woods off Hatch Rd in Truro to pick up the Sunday paper. Around one of the bends in the narrow, rutted, old fire road, he spotted an “abandoned” VW Bug tucked into a small clearing in the forest. When he pulled over to take a closer look, the hair on his arms stood up and he felt as if he were being watched. He jumped back in his station wagon and raced out of the woods. When he [...]
