"Gregg Olsen" is a New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling author of multiple nonfiction books and novels, most of which are crime-related. The subjects of his true crime books include convicted child rapist and school teacher Mary Kay Letourneau, product tampering killer Stella Nickell, fasting specialist Linda Burfield Hazzard, and former Amishman and convicted murderer Eli Stutzman.

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So many people see this as a love story and want to see them together. I do want to remind people that he was 12 and 13 years old when this thing happened, and his life has been profoundly impacted by what she did.

Everything bad that could happen to a teenage boy, which is what he was at the time, happened to him.