162 CSI Rebekah Strong: Bridging True Crime with Fictional Thrills in Her Novels. (Part One)

Send us Fan Mail Send us a textWelcome everyone to part one of my interview with Crime Scene Investigator and Author Rebekah Strong.Rebekah Strong is serving as an active member of law enforcement for over twenty years in a major metropolitan police department. She started in patrol and is now serving as a Crime Scene Investigator in her department's forensics unit where she processes crimes from murders, robberies, burglaries, sexual assaults, and fatal vehicle crashes, to name a few.Rebekah Strong, writing under the pen name of R.J. Strong is a popular author that weaves her real-life experiences into her fiction. In today’s episode we discuss:·      How she got interested in law enforcement at the tender age of nine.·      Academy life as only one of four females in her academy class.·      Equipment that was issued to her when she got out of the academy.·      Her impressions of field training.·      Her almost life ending on duty injury and how that shaped her life and career long after the incident.·      PTSD and the effect it had on her professional and personal life. Please visit Becky's website to learn more about her and her books!Do you want to get your CSI facts straight? Check out Becky's Book, Write Like A CSI: A Forensic Reference for Crime WritersCheck out Field Training (Brew City Blues Book 1)!!Enjoy the Cops and Writers book series.Please visit the Cops and Writers website. What would you do if you lost the one you loved the most? How far would you go to quench your thirst for vengeance?https://a.co/d/2UsJPbaSupport the show What's the craziest thing you saw when you were a cop?My first week on the job, a guy running at me with a butcher knife. He'd just killed his brother over the last hot dog.That's chapter 1. There are 33 more.Police Stories: The Rookie Years just launched - available on Amazon. Search 'Police Stories Patrick O'Donnell' or click thSupport the show