Speaker 1: You're listening to the Mind Over Murder podcast.
Speaker 2: My name is Bill Thomas. I'm a writer, consulting, producer,
and now podcaster. I am now trying to use my
experience as the brother of a murder victim to help
other victims of violent crime. I'm working on a book
on the unsolved Colonial Parkway murders, and I'm the co
administrator of the Colonial Parkway Murders Facebook group together with
Kristin Dilly.
Speaker 3: My name is Kristin Dilly.
Speaker 4: I'm a writer, a researcher, a teacher, and a victim's advocate,
as well as the social media manager and co administrator
for the Colonial Parkway Murders Facebook page with my partner
in crime.
Speaker 3: Bill Thomas. Welcome to Mind Over Murder. I'm Kristin Dilly.
Speaker 2: And I'm Bill Thomas, and we're honored.
Speaker 3: To be joined today by Reginald Reid, author of to
Day My Mother Never Came Home, about the murder of
his mother Selonio read Reggie, thank you so much for
joining us today.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Bill and I really appreciate the opportunity.
Speaker 3: We are a victim friendly podcast, and so we're always
interested in learning the stories of people who have been
touched by violent crime and who have survived it as well,
and your amazing, excellent memoir is an example of both
of those things. So thank you very much for sharing
with us today, and please accept our condolences on your loss.
Speaker 2: Thank you tell us a little bit about your mother, Solonia.
You were a young boy when you lost her. What
are your memories of her?
Speaker 5: I wish I obviously had more memories, but from what
I do remember, I remember she was a kind hearted soul.
I was her world. I remember that, and just from
other people sharing their thoughts and memories involving our relationship,
everything else revolved around me. I was her pride and joy,
which makes me smile and cry at the same time,
because I wish I could have experienced that longer in life.
One I did take away, and one thing that always
stick close to me, is that she was a phenomenal baker.
She loved to bake. There's cake, pies, cookies, things of
that nature, and that's one of other things I carried on,
like I love to bake. Now, I do want to
preface that I'm not like your modern day Betty Crocker
or anything like that. My baking skills are pretty much
read the directions on back of a box. But I
like to think I'm doing something.
Speaker 2: Special, so you probably aren't.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just but no, she was more and more I
really learned from others of how she was. But those
are some of my first hand experience and memories of
my mother are growing up.
Speaker 3: Can you tell us a little bit about her murder,
the investigation, and when it ultimately turned into a cold
case for your family.
Speaker 5: Yeah. So back in nineteen eighty seven, I was six
years old at and it was the worst day of
my life, just waking up and my mother wasn't there.
The title my book The Day my Mother Never came home.
It was a night I'll never forget for obvious reasons.
I remember vaguely. My dad and I we were at
the house at home playing video games late that Saturday night,
and my mother stepped out for a minute. She went
out with friends from my recollection, and the next morning
I woke up to chaos. And when I say chaos,
family law enforcement, it's a lot of chaos. And at six,
you really don't know to the extent of what happened, right,
I didn't really know that, Hey, my mother was butchered
and really murdered, but I knew something wasn't right and
my mom wasn't there. Fast forward. I later took on
a liberty as I began to get older, early teenage years,
to do my own due diligence and research what actually happened.
I heard I guess previously throughout my kildhood of what happened,
but I wanted to see for myself. I did my
own research and actually found this resource called microfilm. I'm
sure you're familiar. I am at the local library and
just research that time period, and one day I remember
just boom, there was I forget the title verbatim, but
it was like local Hammond woman found murdered, blah blah blah,
and I was like, that's my mom. It was such
not saying that one murder or one death is worse
and better than the other, but it was such a
gruesome act. I felt like I was reading about someone else.
Speaker 2: How old would you say you were when you found
the microfilm? And it's funny, we both laughed because we
both researched a number of things for school as well
as for the mind of a murder podcast, so we
tell people our listeners all the time and I know
Kristen says this to her students as well, that not
everything is on the World Wide Web. There's still a
ton of newspaper and other content, older magazines that are
only on microfef that have never been converted. But how
old were you Readie when you were first looking at
the microfilm?
Speaker 5: I think I was around like thirteen fourteen.
Speaker 2: Did the librarians know what you were looking for?
Speaker 5: No?
Speaker 2: Oh they didn't. Like sometimes I would as a kid,
I would go to the librarian and ask, But you
didn't do that in this example.
Speaker 5: No. And it it's funny you asked that question because
it gives you idea. How I was raised by my father.
Father was a marine, and after that tragedy struck our household,
it was like we were put in survival mode, if
you will. With my father's background as a marine and
his structure that he put in place, I pretty much
was raised to survive, not live. I know that sounds
probably not a bad thing, but as a kid, you
want to live like I have a five year old
and a seven month old, and I'm constantly daily like
trying to balance, not trying to be the strict parent
at all times, just because my wife gets on me
because of that. But it kind of ties into how
I was raised, right like, I was raised to survive
and know how to navigate through life as an individual,
which was a huge benefit, don't get me wrong, but
I missed out on so much as a kid. So
to your question, Bill, I'm pretty out saying this like
bragging or anything. But I was self sufficient and independent
early on in life because I had to be. It
was just my dad and I And we all know
how mothers come in and they're the comfort, They're the comforter.
There's nothing against us dads out there. Shout out to
all the dads and the fathers, but it's the mom
who provides that extra level of tea at ten toleven care,
and that was taken away from.
Speaker 3: Me, absolutely devastating. You articulated so beautifully in the memoir
about what you have lost, what you wish you had
been able to continue to have with your mother, that
sense of love and care. Not to say that your
father didn't love you, but you definitely articulate how particular
it is to have the love of a mother in
your life and how traumatic it is when it's taken away.
One of the things that I was particularly struck by
when I was reading was the fact that during the
investigation into your mother's murder, local law enforcement actually hold
you aside as a six year old and interviewed you.
Looking back on that, now, how do you feel about
the fact that investigators interviewed this poor six year old
boy who'd had a massive traumatic loss. What could they
have been thinking? Did they ever share the rationale behind that?
Speaker 5: No? No, I never got the answer to why and
what they were hoping to achieve by doing so. But
as I referenced in the book, when I first was
made aware of that video again, it was a moment
I'm like, is this me like? Looking at a six
year old being interviewed a month later after this mother
been murdered, And I'm looking I'm like, but that is
like shot and in disbelief at the same time, that's
actually me in that video, I think back in I
don't know, I don't know what they were hoping to
get from that, but I pretty much as a six
year old, I pretty much held my own throughout that interview.
Speaker 3: It sounded like it for sure.
Speaker 5: Towards but towards the end, I got real emotional when
they started. Their goal is to get you comfortable and
then leading to the tough questions. And when they start
asking about who's currently at my house, who lives there,
I remember acknowledging the fact that it was myself. My
dad had a golden Labrador at that time. His name
was Duke. But then after I name those three, I paused,
looked at my dad and you could tell I was confused,
and my dad jumped in. He was like, your mom's
still there, She's still with us in spirit to that point,
and they continued on with the interview, and before you
know it, I just broke down in tears and they
ended the interview.
Speaker 2: In that interview, they're not also questioning your father at
that point, are they? No, this was just Reggie.
Speaker 5: This was just me, And they tried to get me along.
That was the initial goal, but it was impossible to
get me away from my dad. Like they tried saying
that he'll be in another room, but I was like,
I'm not going with my dad president, So they just
proceeded with the interview with him in the room as well.
Speaker 3: Your father didn't come until Lawn for Smith's Radar in
a meaningful way for your mother's murder until many years later. Obviously,
we want people to buy the book and read it,
but without giving too much away, can you tell us
a little bit about why they ultimately believed him to
be involved and why he was ultimately arrested and tried
for her murder.
Speaker 5: That question, it still remains as the million dollar question
because I never received the definitive answer question why it
took so long? But based on what I did receive
is that I do want to backtrack it. My dad
wasn't a quiet guy. He wasn't someone that was quote
unquote weird or you stayed inside all the time. He
was heavily involved in politics. He ran for mayor of
the city of ham and, as we all know, from
a political standpoint, that's when everything comes.
Speaker 2: Out right, everything yeah, good and bad.
Speaker 5: Good, bad, ugly pretty everything. We ran from here. He
didn't win, but he ran nothing ever, never ever, nothing
ever surfaced during that time and just fast forward. I
guess with these cold cases, they reevaluate them every so often,
or if a new lead hits or whatever. And I
know a local columnist out of hamm and he wrote
a couple articles, and one of them that kind of
peaked the public's interests. Again, was whatever happened to Salonia read?
I don't know if that drew any It just drew
media attention. I don't think it drew any additional details
or evidence. But it all resurfaced and started with a
cigarette butt that was found back then in eighty seven
in the eighties, DNA really say, really, but wasn't prevalent, right,
you couldn't test it and have the resources, and it's cigarette,
But that was found that the crime was later tested
and it hit a co defendant, another suspect who was
involved in the case. He claimed one of his as
I quote, he claimed once they spoke with him and
questioned him, that he was the key to it. All
started there and resurfaced from that point. The rest she
just got to find out in the book.
Speaker 3: Sure absolutely.
Speaker 2: How old were you, Reagie, when this possibility that this
other man and perhaps your father might be involved in
your mother's murder. How old would you have been when
this question starts to come up?
Speaker 5: Let me see, because I moved to Texas in twenty ten,
so I was thirty at the time, and two years
later we're talking thirty two is when I initially received.
I received a knock at my door in Texas from
a Texas ranger after they at work, and I was scared.
I was like, what did I do or didn't do?
Pay my taxes? I was thinking about everything and he
was there basically to question me about the murder of
my mother. He came. I polite to let him in,
and very nice guy, and he showed me a couple
of pictures and his shirt showed me a timeline that
involved insurance policies and how it look those gaps that
led up to my mother's murder. So thirty two was
when this initially reentry its way back into my life.
But thirty nine it's when I got the call stating
that my father was indicted along with a co defendant,
for second degree murder and conspiracy.
Speaker 3: My god, the memoir is about the loss of your mother,
but it is also very much about the loss of
your father too. What made you decide to take the
enormous step of writing all of this down because this
is rough emotional territory. It's beautifully written, but boy, it's
hard to read, and I can't imagine how hard that
must have been for you to write. What was the
impetus for you to do this kind of work.
Speaker 5: Thanks for the question. It was when that news broke,
if you could imagine nowadays with social media, it took
off like.
Speaker 2: Wildfire, right, It's a very different world.
Speaker 5: It was like, oh, they just took off locally, hit
a couple national outlets, and at that point I was like, wow,
I was stuck in like a time warp. It felt
like I was reliving this again, but as an adult.
And it was just so much negativity on Facebook. People
in the neighborhood claiming, Oh, they knew he did it,
they knew he was strange and he just got people.
I grew up with him. It's a small town, and
I'm thinking like, wow, like you're saying that now, but
you're the same person that was speak or being our face.
But I'm like, that's weird that you always felt like this.
I could remember blocking a few people because they're sharing
the articles. I'm like, that's not right. You claim you're
my friend, but you're sharing negative news. So anyway, at
that point, I stood, I took a deep breath and
I say that lightly. It was several deep breaths, and
I say, Okay, I made it this far. In life.
How can I continue and combat this negativity? And I
remember telling my wife, I said, but I think I'm
gonna write a book, and she was like about what.
I was like, Joe, yeah, write a book. I was
like about me, about my life, and she was like, okay.
She took it as I was just talking just out
of the side of my head at that point. But
at that point, I mentioned in my memoir, I wasn't
a big reader growing up. I actually hated to read.
So it's interesting that I actually wrote a book at
that point. I felt that was the only way I
could tell my story, my side and the truth of
what I actually experienced and the truth to as I
know it. And throughout that process it was very cathartic.
It was a process because that's one thing I just
acknowledged and learned about trauma is that a lot of people,
I think, they allow trauma to get the best of
them without taking a step back and really acknowledging the trauma,
getting to know your trauma and understand that, hey, this
happened to you, but it's okay. A lot of people
just try to ignore. It's like an angry gorilla in
a cage. He's angry, he's beating his chest because he
wants to get out, and once you let him wrong,
free in his habitat, he's good. So that's really what
prompted me to write and share my story and in
the hopes to help others, because you know, I've seen
and read about people going off the deep end for
less stuff that happens in their life, and I just
want to encourage people that, hey, I'm not raising my
hand bragging like oh I had to. It's people that's
dealing with worse stuff in their life, and it's a
way to overcome any trauma that you're faced with.
Speaker 2: So what's the message then that you were looking to
send and to survivors of trauma someone reads the book,
what would you like their take away to be.
Speaker 5: I'll keep it simple. There's life after trauma. I live
by that and I have first hand experience with that
because a lot of people see trauma it's a permanent
closed doors shutting your face. You can't go through it,
you can't go around it, can't get to the other side.
It's just blocking you from so much. And you know what,
that may be true, but it's only temporarily. It's not permanently,
and I just learned that through living life with trauma
and understanding how to navigate it. Another big component of
that is forgiveness. I've written an article that was published
in Newsweek about maintaining continues to maintain my relationship with
my father despite the outcome of all this, and I
got some negative press on that, negative comments from strangers,
and I stand by my decision because at the end
of the day, that's what gives me a lot of peace,
is that I'm not holding in all that anger and animosity,
because I think when people deal with trauma where and
it's inflicted by others, that anger and animosity can cause
you to do other things or just hate life.
Speaker 3: You write really movingly about the process of healing from trauma,
and you talk about being a compassionate witness for others
who have lived it and survived it and have gone
on to thrive like yourself in spite of it. How
long did it take you to reach the point where
you could do that work and also write the book.
As both both Bill and I have undergone traumas of
our own, I don't think either of us are at
the point where we could do the kind of work
that you have done. How long did it take you
to get to this space?
Speaker 5: I would say a very long time. I don't have
exact time. Again, this started early on in life, age
of six. That's when it was like game on to
the rest of my life. Like I mentioned, it was
a process of learning, and really my personality was to
want to know more because I felt that the less
I knew, the more hurtful or the more damaging it
could be for me. It would then be all a wonder.
So I just continue to dig deeper, try to uncover more.
And as I reiterate, as I got older, things continue
to uncover and reveal themselves. Even now I'm like, people, actually,
do you have another book in you? And I'm like,
I don't know. I'm dealing with some other personal health issues.
At this point, I didn't uncovered so much since this
new news, this new trauma broke. I think I really
got the courage when it's all resurfaced, because at that
point I remember having a conversation with my wife about
do I really know what happened to my mom? And
do I really want to find out more? And it
was a point I was like, it's not that I
forgot about her or any but I was like, don't wait,
don't wake a wild bare or angry bear. Right So
when everything resurfaced, I say, I'm gonna take this opportunity
and just turn it into a positive the best way
I can, because I'm all about positivity. And I was like,
there's no way I was gonna let this. I've came
so far in life personally, professionally, it's no way I'm
gonna let this just overshadow what I have accomplished. So
that was my end goal to just take this and
turn it into a positive and share my story and
the hopes of helping others as well.
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your support. Now back to mind over Murder. When you
said that you were looking to develop as much of
an understanding of what had happened, Regie, does that mean
you're actually going back and looking at things that are
really difficult, even the circumstances of your mother's death.
Speaker 5: Yes. Again, like close friends of mine that no, I
researched it in the complete depths of it. They think
I'm crazy because there's no way I could know or
see or what want to know and see those things.
But for me, it was the opposite. It was a
sort of closure. Right. You hear that your mother was murdered,
stabbed over a dozen times with an object similar to
an ice pick, left with an umbrella in between the legs.
You hear this stuff, you read it, and you're like, seriously.
For me, it was like hearing it seeing it and
closed that gap. It just gave me a sense of
this weird closure. It also gave me I wouldn't say
it did give me more sadness, obviously, because I'm human. Right,
But it just it made me just really understand and
more man, what I missed out on in life, that
she was physically taken away from me. Not saying dying
from cancer or accident they are horrible losses, but it's
like she was physically purposely taken away from me.
Speaker 3: Did the experience of losing a parent at such a
young age change how you parent your own children?
Speaker 2: Yes?
Speaker 5: It did, or it does because I see and every
day in day out, our son is a mama's boy,
and I'm chopped liver unless he wants to say the
PlayStation or something, and it just it's a constant reminder. Man,
I didn't have this. I had it at like this age, right,
but like growing up and just seeing how others interact
with their moms, and I was like, man, such a
beautiful thing. But to your question, yes, it makes me
more conscious and aware of how I discipline our kid.
A part of my book is I Love you. That's
something that sticks with me daily because that's what my
dad told me, I love you. It's a difference, that
small tweak in verbiage versus saying I.
Speaker 2: Love you affirmative.
Speaker 5: Something so simple, but it has a significant impact. On
how you feel in that relationship with the other party.
And I make sure that I tell my son and
our daughter that I love you at the random times
because growing up and it really affected me then. But
looking back, that's when it really came to lightest man,
it's it's been good to hear I love you in
that way.
Speaker 2: You're a bit more of a modern dad. In other words,
I'm older than you are. And when I think about
my father never said I love you to us, the
four kids. But you sound like you're coming at this
from what I would regard as a more modern in
touch with your feelings as a father and as a man. Yes,
and your father might have been a generation ago, yes.
Speaker 5: And I'm real cognizant of that because, like I say,
I don't want because it's just human nature. Like my upbringing,
it was very it was not your traditional upbring, very fragmented,
a lot of moving parts, right. And that's not to say, oh,
I want to spoil my son or my daughter. Definitely
don't want to do that. I want to, like I
said earlier, I want to provide a fair balance, just
letting them know, making them aware of what's right and
u's wrong, and Hey, it's okay to be disciplined because
I think the structure that my dad provided and his
strict ways and attributes helped me significantly navigate through life
become independent. Early. I would arguably say that I wasn't
I didn't really enjoy childhood, and I don't want my
kids to feel like that. I want them to enjoy childhood,
but I also want them to be responsible, which is hard.
It's hard we have like my wife says, oh, he's
only four, he's only five. I'm like, yeah, one day,
you're gonna be like, he's only thirteen. I'm like, it's
going to be too late.
Speaker 2: So anyway, but there's that balance you were talking about
where you want them to know they're loved and supported,
but you can't get away with everything even though you
are four years old and super cute.
Speaker 3: Exactly, and obviously this next question will be something that
you'll reflect on, probably many years down the road, talking
about this concept of generational trauma when your son and
then eventually your daughter are old enough to understand, hey,
dad wrote a book, and he wrote a book about
this horrible thing that happened to our grandmother. Is that
something you're willing to share with them and tell them
about and teach them here's what happened, but I learned
from it. Or is that something that you want to
keep separate from them so that they don't have to
undergo the kind of trauma that you went through.
Speaker 5: I'm a big fan of transparency. As a parent, I
want to be proactive. Obviously, I wrote a book. It's
like for anybody in the world to read the store
if they're interested, right, or look up my name or whatever.
They'll see a bunch of information out there. But now
part of the book is part of the reason for
the book. It also is to leave a legacy, right,
part of my legacy and our family's legacy, because it's
stuff I want to know about my great grandmother or
whatever that I really don't know about, and I think
it's important just to add clarity to our family's history.
You look back in history, now everything wasn't sunshine and rainbows.
Where's you're dealing with wars or family. You go down
the line, you're going to find something that was a
little off. It might not be as traumatic as this,
but you're going to find something. And I just think
it's a part where it will add more positive impact,
and so they really understand man Dad, he really been
through a lot, but he also learned from it and
raised us to be better and not go through such
a thing. And I think it also give him the
strength to overcome obstacles. Just knowing that, I try to
stay ahead of the trauma that I experience and just
be a leader in that aspect as the individual, then
as a father, then as a husband. So I have
no regrets when they get a proper aid, whatever question
they want to know, already have books signed to them,
so when they get older, it's something they will cherish
and keep say for them as they get older.
Speaker 2: This is a two parter. What was the most difficult
part of writing the book for you?
Speaker 5: I would say really just collating all of the I
guess information, rapports, documentation, interviews, and just really collating as
much information as possible and really trying. Like I mentioned,
it's my first book, it's really trying to I have
it's my story. I know my story, but how do
I put that in the format of a book. I
had no idea, So I literally hired a team. I
hired a graphic designer for my cover, and that house
in the front of that coverage is the actual house
that I grew up in and it still stands today.
That was the house my dad was still living in
before he got indicted and so forth. But I will
say that's the hardest point, just putting everything in perspective,
and really that's from a technical standpoint. Other than that,
it was just reliving the whole idea from day one
all the way up to now and so forth. That
was really challenging, and that's why it almost took me
four years to write the book.
Speaker 3: It was heroin. When I got to the part where
you were watching the crime scene video and reading the autopsy,
I was like, oh, my heavens, I cannot believe that
you had the fortitude to do that. It would have
made me a basket case.
Speaker 5: Yeah, Kristin, it was a lot to unpack, very heavy.
That was my purpose. I really wanted to. I wanted
people to feel me and just really understand that, hey man,
somebody could have it a lot rougher than you, ten times,
a hundred times, thousand times, and I that was one
of my goals. I just wanted to keep it as
real as possible in respect to my mother and all
parties involved. Yeah, it was. The crime scene was very tough.
It was very tough, but it was something like I
mentioned earlier, reading about what happened versus seeing what happened.
For me, it was weird closure for me because I'm
not type. I'd rather do it versus wondering what if
I were to see it versus just reading about it,
if that option is available.
Speaker 2: Did law enforcement give you full access to the case
files as the years went fine? No, no, but you
did manage to see some extremely detailed and difficult to
review material. But you weren't getting that from law enforcement.
Speaker 5: No, that was through the attorney, through our attorney, but
they had access and it also presented during trial as well.
Speaker 2: So you had access to those documents after the trial
through your attorneys.
Speaker 5: Throughout that I didn't have them previously, but throughout the
process leading up to trial, that's when I had some
sort of access to them.
Speaker 2: Did anyone ever say to you and that these are
people that are in your corner. Did anybody ever say
to you, Reggie, are you sure you want to see
this material? It's very difficult. Did they try to talk
you out of it?
Speaker 5: Yes? It was made aware that it was very graphic,
and that once you see it, you can't unsee it.
Speaker 2: Yeah, we talk about that ourselves.
Speaker 5: That's I will never forget. Once you see it, you
can't unsee it.
Speaker 2: Yep.
Speaker 5: And they're right, it's nothing I can't unsee. Like it's
the worst of the worst. But that's part of me
really understanding and getting to know my trauma and getting
to know really what happened to my mother.
Speaker 3: The way that you write about trauma, I said this
off air already, but it's worth saying on air too.
The way that you write about trauma and healing it
is so powerful and so moving. And I can't remember
a memoir that I've read in the true crime space,
and Bill will tell you I read a ton of it.
I read everything. I really can't remember anything that has
been described so powerfully and so lucidly and transparently. Here's
what it is to be traumatized, to live with it,
to heal from it, to be in the messy middle
of it, and still get up and do all of
this every day and live your life and be successful.
From the very first minute, I started reading with a
highlighter in my hand and like marking every third page
I was like, oh my god, this is really something special, Reggie,
it really is. And I just I really can't thank
you enough for being willing to share this with the
whole world. There is not anything else out there like this,
and it's very powerful.
Speaker 5: Thank you, Thank you Kristin for those remarks. I had
no idea of how it was gonna turn out. One
of the scariest things were the book was pretty much complete,
and I was like, Okay, it's done, and I have
to make my announcement and all that jazz, and I
was like, man, I work in corporate America. People know
me professionally, so became friends, and they have no idea
of my past and present, no idea. And I was like, man,
I'm gonna get judged. I might even get black ball.
People don't think I'm weirdo. I just had all these thoughts.
I said, what the hell, spent this much time and
effort to write it, so I put it out there.
And the response was actually the opposite. It was a
lot of positivity, a lot of positive remarks. People are
amazed that this is part of my store, part of
my life. That was like, no way, Like you were
just on the team's call during that time and you
were in trial, totally confused because I remember the week
of the trial, I had had to take a team's
call for work in the car doing the break. Two
days later, my dad got sentenced to life in prison,
and I'm back to work that monday, and you know,
nobody knew what was going on.
Speaker 2: Not something you bring up at the watercore.
Speaker 5: Yeah, just ta hey, yeah my dad got blah blah blah.
Speaker 2: No.
Speaker 5: But I just think it added just another level of
respect and for people. Really, when I gathered the most
is people really took the opportunity to step back and
look at their own situations. I've received several comments like that, man,
thank you for sharing your story. It provides a lot
of clarity, even for me the things I'm going through
that it's not that bad. I'll get over it, probably
by tomorrow. And I'll end with this is that if
it won't matter, obviously my situation a little different, but still,
if it doesn't matter, if it won't matter in the
next five years, don't spend five minutes worrying about it.
Just keep pushing, keep moving forward.
Speaker 3: The book is The Day My Mother Never came home
by Reginald Read Reggie. Where can people find the book?
Speaker 5: So it's two places. You can visit my website at
r L read that's r e ed dot com r
obviously Amazon, Amazon's has everything, but if you're real particular,
you can go on Barsandoble dot com Books a million.
It's all over the place. What the easiness fastest, I'm
sure you have the app is Amazon.
Speaker 3: Reggie. Thank you so much for joining us and telling
us about your story. It is an absolute marvel of
a book. Thank you for taking the time.
Speaker 5: Thank you as well.
Speaker 3: That's going to do it for this episode of mind
Over Murder. Thank you so much for listening. We'll see
you next time.
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