Lisa Belkin is a journalist and the author of four books. Her latest is Genealogy of a Murder: Four Generations, Three Families, One Fateful Night.

“I didn’t experience it as luck. It—and this is going to be a little woo woo—but it really felt like these people had been sitting there for 100 years saying, Well, it took you long enough, because everything just fit together. I didn’t have to manipulate anything.”

Show notes:

• @lisabelkin
• lisabelkin.com
• Lisa Belkin on Longform
• Belkin’s New York Times archive
• Belkin’s Yahoo News archive
• Belkin’s HuffPost archive
• 02:00 “The Odds of That” (The New York Times Magazine • Aug 2002)
• 09:00 Show Me a Hero (Hachette Book Group • 1999)
• 09:00 Show Me a Hero (David Simon • HBO • 2015)

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