ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Dave Shampine brings to The History Press his fifth offering with this account of the Egan triple homicide of New Year’s Eve 1964. This is his first publication since he retired on March 1, 2013, from a nearly forty-two-year career of writing about crime and local history for the Watertown Daily Times in New York.

Also to his credit with The History Press are Remembering New York’s North Country: Tales of Times Gone By (2009); Colorful Characters of Northern New York: Northern Lights (2010); The North Country Murder of Irene Izak: Stained by Her Blood (2010); and New York’s North Country and the Civil War (2012).

The lifelong resident of Jefferson County now splits his time between homes outside Watertown and at Lake Helen, Florida.

Mr. Shampine introduces to the publishing world his partner in this story, a man whom he had not met until shortly before publication. And he says he is so impressed by the efforts of Daniel Boyer that he thinks Mr. Boyer should have been a reporter or a private detective.

“His persuasiveness, his ability to cajole sources into expertly conducted interviews and his drive to research until all avenues are exhausted not only impress me but also leave me envious,” Mr. Shampine said.

Daniel Thomas Boyer is a Jefferson County native who grew up in Redwood, about thirty miles north of Watertown. He moved south following his graduation from Alexandria Central School in 1976 and eventually settled in Bowling Green, Kentucky, where he continues to reside.

His livelihood was not in writing or research but as a skilled worker for Woodcraft Industries in Bowling Green. After sixteen years, disability forced him into a retirement that gave him the time to research the crime that had haunted him since his youth.

Mr. Boyer, who enjoys playing drums, bass guitar and the harmonica, owns a Facebook site entitled “Where in the Heck Is Redwood, New York.” He is a contribiutor to the Redwood Historical Society.