Unraveling Secrets: Benjamin Hale on the Mysterious Disappearance That Haunts the Ozarks
And Haley’s story and the story of the cult and the crime were equally important to me. When I told the story verbally at a party or something, in the years before I started working on the article/book, I loved the look on people’s faces when the wild turn in the middle comes, after Haley is found alive and safe, when I would say, “And then—” and they would say, “What? It’s not over?” Oh, no. I honestly really wish I had started working on it five years earlier, because some of the key players in the cult murder story from 1978 died right before I started researching and writing it.
