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A great review for Souls Speak!
“Here’s another advance review for my upcoming book Souls Speak!
“The author’s investigative prowess and candid transparency will give even the staunchest skeptic reason to seriously consider the astonishing discoveries examined in this book. The paranormal, true-crime story is chilling, mind-bending, unforgettable and not readily explained in any other way. Read this book!”
Souls Speak will be published in ten days or so.
First Review of Souls Speak!
An active Omaha book reviewer got an Advance Reading Copy of my upcoming book Souls Speak. Here are her comments…
“I finished it. First of all, thanks for two sleepness nights. I’m rattled to the core. I was reading fast and furious at the end. It’s an incredible story and I was initially skeptical, but now I’m convinced. Spooky, chilling, most definitely compelling. I’m like jaw-on-the-floor.
Souls Speak will be published in a few weeks. I should have a cover to share with you in a week.
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Update on Souls Speak
We’re in the final steps of the production process. Copy-editing has been completed and we’ll discuss book cover design tomorrow.
At this point it appears Souls Speak will be published in two weeks or so!
52 Years Ago Today
May 10, 1967 was the last day of normalcy for the Hoag and Dowell families in historic Hannibal, Missouri, Mark Twain’s boyhood home. Joel and Bill Hoag, gregarious kids from a family of thirteen, and their neighbor, Craig Dowell, went off to play and never came home. The search for the trio centered on nearby subterranean cave networks exposed during highway construction. More than three-hundred cavers and other volunteers participated in the month-long effort to find the lost boys, but nary a sign of them was ever discovered.
The story, captured in my last book Lost Boys of Hannibal: Inside America’s Largest Cave Search, remains one of America’s most vexing mysteries. Today, we remember Joey, Billy, and Craig, and their families, as we reflect on this terrible loss.
The Hoag boys were childhood friends of mine. Joey and I, and so many other kids, were modern day Tom Sawyers and Becky Thatchers, exploring the hills, forests and cave openings in our cave-riddled state. Missouri is known as the Cave State with more than seven-thousand caves identified, and more being found regularly as land development progresses.
My next book, Souls Speak, continues the story of the lost boys, as we pursue an astonishing lead into their shared fate. This remarkable paranormal investigation, will be published and available in June 2019.
Letters of Encouragement and Sympathy
The May issue of Hannibal Magazine has an interesting article related to my last book, Lost Boys of Hannibal. It details the many letters of encouragement and sympathy sent to the boy’s families in 1967. I held these letters in my hands three weeks ago; wish they’d been available when I wrote the book. The letters are now in the possession of the Hannibal History Museum.
The article begins on page 15.
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The Mind of a Serial Killer
Serial killers have no empathy nor the ability to feel empathy. They are utterly devoid of humanity and see people as inanimate objects, mere props in their depraved and evil theatrics. At any given time, the FBI estimates there are fifty serial killers roaming loose across the US. Most of them will never be caught.
My upcoming book, Souls Speak, details the astonishing year-long paranormal investigation linking one of America’s most deadly serial killers with the abductions, torture and strangulation of, perhaps, five midwestern children from the late 1960s to 1977. The bodies have never been found, but our probe identified the likely site where some of them are buried.
The killer’s name? John Wayne Gacy, convicted for the murders of thirty-three young men and boys between the years 1972-1978 in Cook County Illinois. But how could he contain his killing to that time period when psychiatrists agree Gacy was incapable of controlling his murderous alter ego – Bad Jack? He couldn’t. Our investigation found he was likely killing years before his Chicago murder spree, and that his evil nature was revealing itself as early as age fifteen when he sexually molested and threatened to kill a nine-year-old boy, at a small resort in southern Wisconsin.
Prepare yourself. The preternatural story told in Souls Speak is true, and I describe events exactly as they occurred. This journey will challenge your boundaries of reality and broaden your understanding of the nature of both good and evil, across the totality of God’s impossibly complex creation.
Souls Speak will be published this summer by Calumet Editions.
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Upcoming Book
Hello and welcome to Cardiffhill.com, my author blog. This is a great place to visit to learn more about my upcoming book and read excerpts. The story details the astonishing paranormal investigation into the disappearances of many midwest children and their suspected serial killer.
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John