Kathleen Hale
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Kathleen Hale covers crime and social media. Her piece “Gabby Petito’s Life With—and Death By—Brian Laundrie” was one of Vanity Fair’s most read pieces of 2022. She is the author of four books, including the Edgar Award–nominated Slenderman: Online Obsession, Mental Illness, and the Violent Crime of Two Midwestern Girls, which won a 2023 Richard Frisbie Award for best adult nonfiction.
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