Carla Conti’s latest true crime book, THE JACKLIGHTER, thirty years in the making, is now officially in the prelaunch phase on Kickstarter:
https://bit.ly/Private-KS-Jacklighter
Here’s a summary of THE JACKLIGHTER …
A Stolen Life. A Buried Secret.
In 1976, attorney Martin Dillon went hunting with his best friend in Pennsylvania’s Endless Mountains — and never came home. The only witness? Dr. Stephen Scher, the man having an affair with Dillon’s wife. When investigators called it an accident, Scher married the widow, raised her children as his own, and lived a stolen life for twenty years — until the body was exhumed and everything unraveled.
THE JACKLIGHTER is a deeply reported true crime book about the decadeslong fight for justice that tore apart a small town and shattered a prominent family. Award-winning author Carla Conti first covered this case in the 1990s as a young writer with insider ties to Montrose, Pennsylvania. Now, with materials no one else has and thirty years of perspective, she’s writing the book this case always deserved.