Ugly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD

In 1996, he was a high school senior with a basketball scholarship and realistic dreams of playing in the NBA. I’m working on a new book: “Battle-Tested: A Journalist Investigates a Classmate’s Murder Conviction.” It’s about Antwaun Cubie, my classmate from grade school. The book will be published by Chicago Review Press on October 3, 2023.ĪND…. Kathy is the first confirmed Bundy victim to write a memoir and her story of survival is inspiring. She survived an attack by Ted Bundy in 1978. My third book, “A Light in the Dark: Surviving Ted Bundy and More,” is co-authored with Kathy Kleiner Rubin. The book was named one of the best books of 2019 by the American Journal of Nursing. The book released as an Amazon #1 new release in Philippines history as well as nursing and critical care. All 12 nurses came home, all nursed until the end.

They maintained rank and reported to the makeshift hospital each day to nurse ailing civilian inmates. These women were imprisoned in a concentration camp for more than three years.

My second book, “ This is Really War: The Incredible True Story of a Navy Nurse POW in the Occupied Philippines” (Chicago Review Press, 2019), investigated the ordeal of Dorothy Still and 11 other navy nurses during WWII. The book was the first to investigate and tell Sabella’s full story. The book was recommended by the New York Times and many other prestigious news outlets. She did not speak English, she was a recent immigrant, and she was a member of an ethnic minority feared by Chicagoans in the early 1920s.

But prosecutors wanted an easy win and Sabella Nitti was a safe target. There was no evidence, motive, or positive identification on the decayed corpse fished from a suburban sewer. My first book, “Ugly Prey: An Innocent Woman and the Death Sentence that Scandalized Jazz Age Chicago” (Chicago Review Press, 2017), investigated the 1923 conviction against Sabella Nitti, the first woman in Chicago sentenced to die for the murder of her missing husband. I’ve also written multiple pieces for The New York Times including a story about nurses and PTSD. I’ve also contributed to with stories about the law and women who killed during postpartum psychosis how pandemic isolation impacted memory loss patients and how the pandemic worsened a caregiver shortage. My work for the site has included a series about Early Onset Alzheimer’s Disease. More recently, I’m a regular contributor to Discover Magazine’s web site. My work has also run in the Los Angeles Times, Detroit Free Press, Miami Herald, and dozens of other major metropolitan daily newspapers. In the following decade, I wrote more than 800 stories for the esteemed paper. I received my first assignment from the Chicago Tribune shortly after my twenty-fourth birthday. I am a journalist and author in the Chicago area.

Ugly Prey by Emilie Le Beau Lucchesi, PhD