SAN DIEGO — Caitlin Rother did not set out to become a true-crime writer. But if you look back at the San Diego author s life, the clues were there all
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Caitlin Rother did not set out to become a true-crime writer. But if you look back at the San Diego author’s life, the clues were there all along.
When she was a general-assignment reporter for the Berkshire Eagle and the Springfield Union-News in western Massachusetts in the late 1980s, Rother spent her spare time reading about sensational murder cases and devious criminals in New York magazine.
From 1993 until 2006, Rother was a reporter at The San Diego Union-Tribune, where she ended up writing some memorable stories involving bizarre deaths. Like the case of Steven Jean Hoover, a 50-year-old computer programmer who starved himself to death in his Clairemont condominium in 1995.