{"id":3438,"date":"2022-10-11T15:08:55","date_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:08:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/?p=3438"},"modified":"2022-10-11T15:08:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-11T15:08:59","slug":"drifting-into-darkness-author-visits-the-troy-university-library-to-discuss-his-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/10\/11\/drifting-into-darkness-author-visits-the-troy-university-library-to-discuss-his-book\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Drifting Into Darkness&#8221; author visits the Troy University Library to discuss his book"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"http:\/\/troy.edu\">Troy University<\/a> students got insight into the investigation of a Montgomery double murder case that made national headlines nearly 20 years ago. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.troy.edu\/libraries\/\">Troy University Library<\/a> welcomed in author and investigative journalist Dr. Mark Pinsky to discuss his book &#8220;Drifting Into Darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The book follows a 2004 true crime double-murder case that took place in Montgomery, Alabama.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Pinsky has covered crime cases for over 40 years which includes several high-profile murder cases.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He has interviewed notorious killers like Jeffrey McDonald and Ted Bundy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is Pinsky&#8217;s seventh book which includes Pinsky&#8217;s findings throughout his time investigating this case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about a young man, a troubled young man, but gifted who slowly went mad and ended up killing both his parents with an ax handle and a knife and a steak knife,&#8221; says Pinsky. &#8220;I think we&#8217;ve identified and kind of circled around a woman who was the intellectual author of this murder. A woman who claimed to be a Native American Shaman. Turns out she wasn&#8217;t either but she, I believe and I discuss in the book, manipulated Brent Springford, Jr. into killing his parents in her hopes of getting money from the family&#8217;s estate.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For the full story watch Claudia&#8217;s report. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Troy University students got insight into the investigation of a Montgomery double murder case that made national headlines nearly 20 years ago. <\/p>\n<p>The Troy University Library welcomed in author and investigative journalist Dr. Mark Pinsky to discuss his book &#8220;Drifting Into Darkness.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The book follows a 2004 true crime double-murder case that took place&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"a-button\" href=\"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/2022\/10\/11\/drifting-into-darkness-author-visits-the-troy-university-library-to-discuss-his-book\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":3444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[302],"topics":[],"class_list":["post-3438","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-troy-university-library"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3438"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3443,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3438\/revisions\/3443"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3438"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3438"},{"taxonomy":"topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/today.troy.edu\/trojanvision\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topics?post=3438"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}