The picture above is the apartment house where the gruesome murder of Holly Staker took place on August 17, 1992. The author of the book I'm currently editing, Ron Kranig, began working the case shortly after the murder when the woman who lived in the apartment, the person who'd hired Holly, an 11-year-old girl, to babysit her two children, contacted Mr. Kranig, asking for his help to investigate the crime.

During a 20-year odyssey in search of justice for Holly, Mr. Kranig managed to free the wrongfully convicted Juan Rivera, but Holly's killer was never identified. Ron Kranig, however, had not given up, moved to Florida, and continued hoping that someday there would be justice in the Holly Staker case.

As another sign from the "Storytelling Fairies" to keep the project going, for the first time I recently looked at Ron's Florida home address and found...Holly Hill, Florida!

Seeing that remarkable Synchronicity, not "Holy" as might be expected, but Holly, I knew Ron Kranig was a...man of destiny... 

Mayo Clinic Minute: Music Fortifies Brain Pathways

 

 

Well, it's happened again, the "Storytelling Fairies" patted me on the back today with another complimentary Synchronicity coincidence.

Within hours of posting a proposal to NPR's This American Life, suggesting a radio story about the Mayo Clinic and how as a result of their polio treatment back in the '50's at least one patient, the author I am now working with on A Judas Kiss For Justice, Ron Kranig, insists that only after his months at the Mayo Clinic did a near perfect photographic memory develop for anything he saw, read, or heard. 

My story proposal was that This American Life should find out if there were other polio patients who developed the same or other enhanced abilities. In Ron's case, he also believed that he grew about four inches taller than his father or brother.

So, within hours of that pitch I open the newspaper and find this article:

https://newsnetwork.mayoclinic.org/discussion/mayo-clinic-minute-music-on-the-brain/

Mayo Clinic Minute: suggesting that music has the power to fortify brain pathways.

Now, you have to understand that for the first time in my life I sent a proposal to This American Life dealing with the Mayo Clinic and that within a few hours I see an article in the paper directly connected to that Mayo Clinic post. 

That was all I needed to feel the Storytelling Fairies sweet pat on my back encouraging me to

                                                ...Keep Telling Your Story!!!

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4eOOz39iA_Y&list=PLaW84zjbaYZLLeYpcZkxulRohrZ7zDdEG&index=2

In this episode, Confession of Guilt, I'm shaking my head...as I've mentioned before in posts the "Storytelling Fairies" enjoy toying with me during writing projects...tantalizing me with impossibly rare Synchronicity coincidences that tell me they are watching and approve of the story I'm currently telling!

 

I haven't seen these Rumpole episodes for 30 years, but I recently saw this one...a person of color was collared for a crime he didn't commit and railroaded into a coerced confession by the detective who arrested him.

 

Why is this such a remarkable coincidence, in my current project In Development, A Judas Kiss For Justice, in the Holly Staker Murder case a young man of color, also feeble minded, was arrested without evidence for the gruesome murder of a young girl, Holly Staker. They grilled him for hours until he signed a coerced confession, which was the prosecution's only evidence used to convict him three times before the Northwestern University-Center for Wrongful Convictions exonerated Juan Rivera, who later earned a 20 million dollar settlement. This case was the primary reason for the author, Ron Kranig, to write his memoir, in hopes of finally finding Justice for Holly Staker whose killer, 20 years later, is still unidentified.