How to get started as a True Crime Writer

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I get asked a lot of the same questions. How I got started is one of them. The problem is, there are a lot of answers to that question. Here is one of them. Or I guess, part of the answer. Sorry I am getting ready for bed but I wanted to do it yesterday. Id been procrastinating.

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