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J.T. Ellison | Fictionalizing Reality
Uncategorized / January 14, 2009

Twisted as I am, my imagination usually guides my stories. I dream up horrific endings by villainous creations (who end up giving me nightmares,) and terrorize my adopted hometown of Nashville with crazed killers. But up to now, every story I’ve written has been pure, straight out of my head, fiction. I made an exception for JUDAS KISS. The fictional murder of my victim, Corinne Wolff, was based on a real case. In 2006, I saw an article from a North Carolina newspaper about a young pregnant mother named Michelle Young who was found murdered by her sister. Her death was unspeakably violent, and her child had been alone in the house for days with her mother’s corpse. The media reported a number of salient details, including the bloody footprints the child had left through the house. I watched the case, hoping there would be a resolution. Unfortunately, Michelle Young’s murder still isn’t solved. Her husband is the prime suspect. Order Your Copy today Her story became the opening of JUDAS KISS. The crime stories that seem to capture our interest as a society are the ones that take place where we feel the safest, which is inside our own…