Month: June 2026

Carla Conti's The Jacklighter recevied press attention coinciding with the 50th anniversary of the killing of Martin Dillon by Steve Scher.
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Something Shifted This Week For years, I’ve been researching, reporting, and writing The Jacklighter, a narrative true crime book about the 1976 murder of Montrose attorney Martin Dillon and the decades-long quest for justice that followed. (Set for publication this fall.) For 30 years, I’ve kept boxes of newspaper clippings in my basement. Decades ago, I sat with the...
Carla Conti shares and narrates a new excerpt from her next true crime book THE JACKLIGHTER in remembrance of murder victim Marty Dillon, killed 50 years ago on June 2, 1976
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πŸ—£οΈ Listen to this short post and full excerpt, narrated by the author (23 min): New excerpts from THE JACKLIGHTER mark 50 years since a Pennsylvania attorney was murdered in the woods. In a perfect world, The Jacklighter would have been published on June 2, 2026, exactly 50 years to the day that Martin Dillon walked into the Pennsylvania...