Staring down into the yawning grave, investigative journalist Tess Alexander inhaled the dirty gray fog, then gave a long sigh that briefly briefly parted the mist in front of her before closing in again. It made no sense: Rennie Matlock was finally getting her life together, finally shaking off the horrors of her earlier years and moving into a hopeful future where the past no longer chained and haunted her. The young woman's sudden and violent suicide gnawed at a corner of Tess's mind like a vile worm, leaving an inky trail of doubt behind. A decade before, media pundits and mental health…mehr
Staring down into the yawning grave, investigative journalist Tess Alexander inhaled the dirty gray fog, then gave a long sigh that briefly briefly parted the mist in front of her before closing in again. It made no sense: Rennie Matlock was finally getting her life together, finally shaking off the horrors of her earlier years and moving into a hopeful future where the past no longer chained and haunted her. The young woman's sudden and violent suicide gnawed at a corner of Tess's mind like a vile worm, leaving an inky trail of doubt behind. A decade before, media pundits and mental health experts alike had somberly, head-shakingly declared that Rennie's act of plunging a letter-opener into her mother's neck was unfathomable and without motive. Here was a lovely, seemingly well-adjusted teenage girl from a prominent and wealthy San Francisco family, suddenly gone completely mad. But Tess knew the dark truth that helped explain the inexplicable, and understood the roots of terror and hopelessness that had driven Rennie's fury. She knew too that the long and spinning years between then and now had brought the young woman a small measure of redemption, and that she was opening the door to a new life that perhaps even included extending herself a fragment of mercy, if not forgiveness. Baffled by the abruptness of Rennie's anguished descent into an inescapable abyss of despair, Tess vowed to uncover the impetus behind her suicidal act. She had no idea how potentially lethal that effort would be.
It was as a graduate intern at a Sacramento CBS-affiliate television station that Joan became involved in the story that would ultimately form the basis for her full-length work of nonfiction, Little Girl Lost: A True Story of Shattered Innocence & Murder, first published in 1992. The book sold over 250,000 copies worldwide.Over the years, she has authored a number of feature articles, commentaries, profiles, and columns which have appeared in dozens of national and regional magazines and newspapers. Among them are AARP Magazine, Sacramento Magazine, Sierra Heritage, the Sacramento Bee, and Vidura: The Press Institute of India Mass Media Magazine.Joan has been the recipient of awards from the Society of Professional Journalists as well as Writer's Digest magazine for her article on a one-time homophobic father's efforts to deal with his gay son's emergence from the closet and diagnosis of--and eventual death from--AIDS, and how that father went on to become an AIDS activist. In 2021, she received an Honorable Mention from the New Millennium Awards for her article, "Whispers of a Forgotten Plague."Throughout the years, she has also been honored with dozens of awards for her civic work, including the Paul Harris Award from Rotary International for community service. An avid dog-lover--especially golden retrievers--she writes two newspaper columns on life with animals, syndicated in California and Colorado newspapers. In addition to her writing, she also teaches Communication Studies at a California community college.
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