Suspecting that the woman had gone so far as to purposely drop her dog down that hole, Sara enlisted her husband, Bob, to intervene. Two months later, the woman revealed that she had known who Sara was all along and wanted access to her publishing contacts. The woman didn’t seem to know who the author was, which she found comforting, and they became casual friends. Once, a woman in her neighborhood banged on Sara’s door for help, saying that her dog had fallen down a steep hole nearby. Another reader, with whom Sara corresponded often on Facebook, eventually became so obsessed with her that she had to block him a year to the day later, he committed suicide. One reader wrote to her, musing about how easy it would be to attend an event and shoot her. Some instances were so outrageous I might think Sara was exaggerating had I not witnessed them myself. Since publishing her book, she’d experienced a surge of readers and fans reaching out, seemingly interested in how her celebrity might benefit them. Most surprising to Sara: Murdoch did not ask for money or help or even a response. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit “described my (wrongful) conviction as ‘a truly spectacular miscarriage of justice.’” He wrote that former chief justice Alex Kozinski of the U.S. He had created his own stationery, decorating his letter with intricate doodles: two flowers, a tiny heart, a spiky fish with neon stripes. Even aside from the remarkable connection to her book - Sara, 52, had indeed researched a real-life performer named Lottie - Murdoch’s letter stood out. The letter came from Gruen’s publisher in June 2015, which had forwarded it to her home in Asheville, North Carolina, where she lives with her husband, her son (the youngest of her three adult children), and a menagerie of pets, including horses named Tia and Fancy. Murdoch wondered if Sara had based one of her characters, Lottie the Aerialist, on his grandmother if so, his “long departed grandfolks would have sure been tickled and honored.” He signed off “Respectfully, Chuck Murdoch” and added a strange moniker: “Badfish.” When he was a kid, he wrote, his grandpa told tales of performing in an early-20th-century circus with his teenage bride, Lottie. “Oh man … it was AWESOME!” The 2006 book, a tale of star-crossed lovers in a traveling circus, was personal for Murdoch. “I just finished devouring your WATER FOR ELEPHANTS,” he wrote. C76287, sentenced to life without parole for first-degree murder. The sender’s name was Charles Murdoch, prisoner No.
Since her novel Water for Elephants sold 10 million copies worldwide and inspired a movie starring Reese Witherspoon, Sara Gruen has received 60 or so letters from people behind bars, but this one was different.
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