Press Release
Crime Publisher Announces Anthology of Hot Car Deaths
New
York, USA, 2/01/2015:
With the 2014 alleged hot car murder of 22-month-old Georgia toddler
Cooper Harris by his father Justin Harris still in the media, two
true crime authors in their own right have collected similar stories
of such tragedies to document the frequency of hot car deaths and
show that the Georgia tragedy is no more than a continuation of a
horrific history.
Recently,
notorious Serial Crime Expert RJ Parker, author of seventeen true
crime books, and bestselling crime author JJ Slate announced the
completion and pending publication of their anthology titled Backseat
Tragedies: Hot Car Deaths. Available
now to pre-order and set
to hit the shelves April 14th
in eBook, paperback, and audiobook (mid-May), the book depicts past
tragedies and explains some of the research behind why experts think
these accidents happen so frequently. This book also discusses new
technologies coming to the market that will hopefully put an end to
hot car deaths completely.
According
to reports, while 30 hot car deaths were recorded in the U.S. last
year, in 2013 there were 44 deaths in this manner and since 1998, 636
children have died after being trapped in an unattended hot vehicle.
Slate recently stated, “RJ and I wrote this book to spread
awareness about these tragedies and what we can do as a society to
reduce, and eventually eliminate, hot car deaths. Most people think
it can't happen to them, but the research shows that it happens to
people of all ages, races, income, and education levels.”
In
2014, Justin Harris was charged with murder after allegedly leaving
his toddler strapped in his car seat while he went to work on a hot
July day, causing the child to die of hyperthermia. While this was
one of the inspirations for writing the text, as the book description
explains, accidents caused by neglect are possible when it comes to
hot car deaths, but in some cases these crimes are intentional
murder. In the end, as Slate recently said in regards to inspiration
surrounding the book, “We hope to raise awareness about how a
simple act of carelessness can result in the death of a beautiful
child.”
About
the Authors
JJ
Slate is the author of bestselling Missing
Wives, Missing Lives
and has a new release coming February 28, Till
Death Do Us Part: A Collection of Newlywed Murder Cases.
She also co-wrote Social
Media Monsters: Internet Killers
with RJ Parker.
RJ
Parker is an acclaimed bestselling true crime author of mostly serial
killer books, such as Serial
Killers Abridged: An Encyclopedia of 100 Serial Killers,
SerialKillers Case Files, Top Cases of The FBI,
and SerialKiller Groupies.
He also co-wrote volumes 1 and 2 of SerialKillers True Crime Anthology.
Besides writing, RJ is the CEO of RJ
Parker Publishing, Inc., publisher of True Crime and Crime
Fiction books.
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