Too Good a Girl: Remembering Olene Emberton and the Mystery of Her Death

by Janis Thornton

Overview

At 11:30 p.m., Saturday, October 16, 1965, Tipton, Indiana teen Olene Emberton dropped off a friend after a movie and drove off headed for home, a journey of just six blocks. Inexplicably, she never arrived. Two days later, a nearby farmer found her nude body discarded alongside a remote country road. How she died and who abandoned her was never determined. Throughout the intervening years, a number of locals thought they had the answers, but only one of them truly knew, and that person isn't telling. "Too Good a Girl" is Olene's story.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781732763012
Publisher:	Life Sentences Publishing LLC
Publication date:	08/04/2018
Pages:	208
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.44(d)

About the Author

Janis Thornton is the author of true crime/oral history/memoir “Too Good a Girl,” as well as two cozy mysteries in the Elmwood Confidential series — “Dust Bunnies & Dead Bodies” and “Dead Air & Double Dares.” She also is the author of two local history books, “Images of America: Tipton County” and “Images of America: Frankfort”; and contributor to “Undeniably Indiana” and “Chicken Soup for the Mother's Soul 2.”

She is a member of the national and Indianapolis chapter of Sisters in Crime, the Authors Guild, Indianapolis Writers Center, and the historical society of her hometown, Tipton Indiana. Her cozy mysteries were finalists in the East Texas Writers Guild’s First Chapter Book Award contests in 2015 and 2016. She was a 2009 Midwest Writers Workshop Fellow and was a finalist in the Daphne du Maurier contest the same year. Her newspaper feature stories have been recognized by Women in Communications (Lafayette, Indiana chapter), Smiles Unlimited, and the Hoosier State Press Association.

You may contact/follow/like her at www.janis-thornton.com, Twitter (@JanisThornton), and Facebook (facebook.com/janisthorntonauthor).