Leslie Ghiglieri

A devoted reader of classics and nonfiction, Leslie was initially employed as a 911 dispatcher in California where she was immediately addicted to the unpredictability of police work. After moving to Oregon, she joined the Josephine County sheriffs department working in the dispatch and warrants division. After three years, Leslie accepted a position as a field representative for a criminal justice computer system overseeing the needs of 17 agencies in Southern Oregon. Now retired, interest in reading, law-enforcement work, and recreational writing, resulted in Leslie fulfilling the wish of a friend who asked her to document the story of her husband’s murder. This book, The Decision to Kill, not only tells readers intimate details of the cr

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