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RON FRANSCELL

Wendy Corr:

Well, hey there, folks, welcome to The Roundup. We're a Cowboy State Daily podcast. We focus on interesting people in the Cowboy State. And one of the privileges that I get, being able to host The Roundup, is I get to talk to people who I admire and whose work is absolutely fascinating to me, and that is the case with today's guest.

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So 'Business From the Basement' podcast, don't miss it, but we also don't want you to tune out here, because there's so many things we're going to talk about today that just tickles me. I'm an avid True Crime reader. I love Dateline on television and in podcast form, but I also love thriller mysteries, and our guest today is Ron Franscell. Ron has written 19 books so far about true crime, about just those, those thriller mysteries that get under your skin.

And I am tickled to be able to highlight and profile today Ron Franscell, who has done his share of profiling people through his journalism background, through his his books that he's researched. Ron, hello and welcome to The Roundup. We're so glad to have you today.

Ron Franscell:

Thank you for having me. Because I'm from Wyoming, your introduction makes me a little, you know, humble. I think we grow up and we're told the moment your head starts to get a little bigger, at least in my case, my mom had smacked me up against the head and say, You're not all that. And coming from Wyoming it is easy to believe that we're somehow should be more humble.

The fact is, over the time, I've realized that we're lucky in Wyoming,

Wendy Corr:

Absolutely

Ron Franscell:

I've been around the world as a war correspondent, as a reporter, as just a tourist. I don't meet many people from Wyoming, so there aren't that many of us. We're unique.

Wendy Corr:

We are a special club here, being from Wyoming, and that's one of the things, though, that I think makes your career so interesting and so unique is that you have done all of these things, and you are from Wyoming.

You grew up in Casper, and that is that must be where you got bit by the storytelling bug, because there were some things that happened in your childhood, things that happened right down the road from you that that instilled a sense

Ron Franscell:

Right next door.

Wendy Corr:

That instilled a sense of, I need to tell this story. Tell us about the incident that happened right next door. We just talked about it, honestly, folks - in Cowboy State Daily just a few weeks ago, we did a story about an infamous bridge from which a terrible, terrible tragedy happened. And Ron, you chronicled this tragedy in one of your books. It's called The Darkest Night. Tell us about this incident and how it affected you and how it inspired you.

Ron Franscell:

Well, looking at my calendar here this week, 51 years ag