O.J. Modjeska

"Truth is stranger than fiction ... and this author offers horrifying insight..."

I am a true crime author who wears many other hats, including erstwhile historian and criminologist and avid consumer of books and TV series ... find out what I've been bingeing on in the ScreamingForStreaming blog at http://www.estoire.co/

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OJ Modjeska is a criminologist, historian and author. She graduated from the University of Sydney with a PhD in Modern American History in 2004, and received her Graduate Diploma in Criminology from Sydney Law School in 2015. In 2015 she was awarded the JH McClemens Memorial Prize by Sydney Law School for her scholarship in criminology. Before pursuing a writing career she worked for many years as a legal writer a

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