Show Notes
17-year-old Michelle “Missy” Avila thought she was heading into the California mountains with friends. Instead, she was brutally murdered by the very people she trusted most.
New York Times bestselling author Karen Kingsbury joins the FOX True Crime Podcast to revisit the case she first covered as a young reporter, including her jailhouse interview with the killer and the chilling lack of remorse she witnessed firsthand.
Kingsbury also shares how the case inspired her first book, Missy’s Murder, launching a writing career that would eventually take her from true crime to bestselling fiction and film
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