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CLOSE TO HOME: Sexual Abusers and Serial Killers, Memoir and Murder with author Janine O’Neill
March 25, 2024 @ 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm

Monday March 25th 7 to 8 pm
My book uses the Weaver family’s unique history as a hook from which to hang a broader story about why some people are more likely than others to become victims of violent crime, perpetrators of violent crime or both.
As an attorney, I prosecuted crimes committed against children in Clackamas County for seven years. Had I not left the district attorney’s office there, I would have expected to be one of the deputy DAs assigned to Ward Weaver III’s case. As it was, I covered the story in my second career as a reporter for the Portland Tribune. I also am the former executive director of the Oregon Crime Victims Law Center and the mother of a child who—like Weaver III’s victims—was sexually assaulted by a known, trusted adult. (My family’s experience is part of the memoir aspect of my book, which I published under my unmarried name, O’Neill, to protect my family’s privacy.)
What one reviewer said about the book
“Best book, local and true crime edition: Janine O’Neill’s Close to Home, in which the Portland journalist and attorney who covered the 2002 Oregon City disappearances of Ashley Pond and Miranda Gaddis takes a look at those murders (and others) through a multi-faceted lens: historical, biological, legal, personal and intensely analytical. O’Neill tells several extremely difficult yet well-organized stories through her excellent and tight writing and top-notch investigative chops, along with a dash of, somehow, self-effacing wit.” From the Portland Business Journal‘s “The PBJ’s best of 2023 in arts and culture.”
Details
- Date:
- March 25, 2024
- Time:
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7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Venue
- Bloomsbury Books Ashland
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290 East Main Street
Ashland, OR 97520 United States + Google Map - Phone
- 541-488-0029
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