When you really think about our fascination with true crime, it’s. It. The true crime shows and podcast and stuff that we listen to in the books that we read is entertainment to us, but it’s a tragedy and a true devastation to the people that it affects. So that’s so interesting that we. I don’t think it’ll ever end. We’ll never not be fascinated by death and murder and. And. And truly, what you said, how. How can someone do something like that to someone else? So I went to Crime Con as a part of the research for this book because. And I had never been. And then also to talk with people like, what is it? To answer this question, what is it about true crime? Yeah. And I was fascinated. Everyone I spoke to gave some version of it. Makes me. Cause it was during the pandemic. Yeah, at this time. And it gives some sense of control. If I know what can happen, maybe I can protect myself. Or that some control over your environment as well. What compelled you to write about this case specifically, compared to, you know, cases maybe like Lacey Peterson or other, other really big national headlines that we’ve seen? Well, this is a part of the world where I live and. And that I’ve spent my career covering, you know, politics and money in the south, and so that part of it, it felt familiar to me. I Don’t think I could do a story, um, in Texas or California, place that is not known, it’s not home to me. But I also think the story had, um, the fundamental elements of a. Of a great American yarn, of great saga. And the money and power aspect of it. The amount of money that he took from people, the amount of money that he brought in, in his cases.