YOUNGSTOWN Nearly 400 guests attended the Society of St. Vincent de Paul of Mahoning County’s annual Christmas dinner Thursday in the basement of the form
By Bonnie Davis Special to The Stokes News
KING Writers are often told “write what you know,” a phrase typically attributed to Mark Twain though he didn’t always follow it himself.
For Paula May, she not only wrote about what she knows, she wrote about what she lived as a violent crimes investigator with a 32-year law enforcement career.
Most local residents will recognize her name as the former Chief of Police for the town of King, the post she retired from at the end of 2018.
While May has a well of personal experiences to draw from, probably her most renowned case was a murder thriller of highest intrigue based in dark jealousy that involved three law agencies Rowan and Watauga County Sheriff’s Departments and Salisbury Police Department with an international aspect that seems implausible.