“Stranger Than Fiction”

with Valerie Wigglesworth

Former Dallas Morning News reporter Valerie Wigglesworth—and secretary of the board for SinCND—will share stories from some of the more interesting trials she’s covered in Collin County. Learn about one criminal’s celebrity pen pal, the dilemma over a missing Taco Bell quesadilla and a millionaire businessman's fall from grace. These true-crime tales just might give you some ideas for writing fictional murder and mayhem.

Valerie Wigglesworth is a wannabe novelist who loves true crime, where the details are sometimes stranger than fiction. She finds some of the most fascinating reads in court records. When she’s not writing or reading, she’s doing the family thing with her husband and two kids.