TEXAS TRUE CRIME - San Antonio Book Festival
April 12, 2025

TEXAS TRUE CRIME

  • 10:00 am - 10:45 am
  •    |   Location of Session: Festival Room
  • Adult Sessions
  • Start of Signing: 11:00 am
  •    |   Signing Location: Festival Marketplace

About the Event

Investigative journalist Lise Olsen follows a forensic anthropologist’s quest to identify long-lost victims of a sadistic killer in Houston, known as the Candyman in The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys. Olsen jumps back and forth between the original crimes in the working class Houston Heights neighborhood and the investigators’ breakthroughs decades later. This will be a satisfying read for true-crime aficionados. 

About the Author

Lise Olsen - The San Antonio Book Festival Photo Credit: Cress Thibodeaux

Lise Olsen

Lise Olsen is an investigative reporter, editor, and award-winning author of Code of Silence: Sexual Misconduct by Federal Judges, the Secret System That Protects Them, and the Women Who Blew the Whistle. Her reports have contributed to the prosecutions of a former congressman and a federal judge, inspired laws and reforms, helped solve cold cases, restored names to unidentified murder victims, and freed wrongfully held prisoners. Her writing has appeared in the Texas Observer, NBC News, Houston Chronicle, Texas Monthly, and elsewhere. She’s featured in Netflix’s Crime Scene: The Texas Killing Fields, Paramount+’s The Pillowcase Murders, CNN’s Death Row Stories, and the A&E series The Eleven. She lives near Houston, Texas. Her new book is The Scientist and the Serial Killer: The Search for Houston’s Lost Boys.

Moderator

Lise Olsen - The San Antonio Book Festival

Patricia Portales

Patricia Portales is Professor of English and Humanities at San Antonio College and a member of the Macondo Writers Workshop. She is a contributing writer for the San Antonio Report and the San Antonio Current. She also serves on the advisory committee of the San Antonio Book Festival. Her chapter “Tejanas on the Home Front” appeared in Latina/os and World War II: Mobility, Agency, and Ideology published by the University of Texas Press.

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