Journalism

Reporting/Feature Writing

GQ Magazine. Senior Writer (1994-2001)
O-The Oprah Magazine
Los Angeles Times (Opinion page; Sunday Magazine)
Los Angeles Magazine
(McMartin Preschool Stories)
New York Magazine
Washington Times (Opinion page)
Rolling Stone
Life
People
U.S. New & World Report
Rolling Stone
Los Angeles Daily Journal (Staff Reporter)
Village Voice
Los Angeles Magazine
ELLE
Reader’s Digest
San Francisco Magazine
California Lawyer

Books

2006. Stealing Love: Confessions of a Dognapper (Memoir. Harmony Books/Random House)

Television/Film


Producer. Discovery Channel documentary pilot/Plural Marriage (2006)
Co-Producer. Documentary Series: The Staircase. The murder trial of author Michael Petersen. (2005)
Producer/Writer. KCBS-TV. Two on the Town series.

Awards

1998. First Place/Feature writing. Regional Magazine Association. San Francisco Magazine. “The Mysterious Death of Heiress Margaret Lesher.”
1996. Finalist. National Magazine Award. GQ Magazine. “A Case of Homicide?”
1994. Finalist. National Magazine Award. GQ Magazine. “Was Michael Jackson Framed? The Untold Story."
1993. John Bartlow Martin Award. GQ Magazine. “Dying for Their Country.”

Interviews

2004. MSNBC, FOX, CNN. 2004 Michael Jackson child molestation case.
1998. Good Morning America. Gulf War Syndrome.
1996. NBC Dateline. Mysterious death of prison inmate Kenneth Trentadue.
1994. The Today Show, CNN, KCBS-TV, CBS Morning News. Entertainment Tonight. 1993 Michael Jackson case.
1990. CBS News. ABC Good Morning America. KABC Radio, McMartin Preschool child molestation case.

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