Steven Hayward Long (born July 17, 1944), from Houston, Texas, is an American journalist, magazine publisher and author of three books of true evil and a novel. She has worked three roles simultaneously, covering news events for magazines and newspapers while editing monthly Horseback magazine and researching books.
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Initial years
Long was born in Galveston, one of five brothers, a rice farmer, and his wife. At the age of 11, he won his first journalism award with a reward badge from the Boy Scouts after his birth papers published articles about his troops.
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Radio career
He began his journalistic career as a radio reporter after attending Alvin Community College, the Texas Lutheran College and Sam Houston State University. Working as a weekend reporter in the early 1960s for KGBC Galveston, Long covered President John F. Kennedy's arrival to Houston's Hobby Airport on the day before Kennedy's murder the next day in Dallas. He also reads AP bulletins immediately announcing the shooting of Kennedy's killer, Harvey Oswald. Long spent four years on Galiley KILLE radio as an advertising sales associate while reading the news and coordinating high school sports programs during the football season.
Publisher
From 1977 to 1988, Long owned and published alternate weekly Galveston Between . Since 2004, he has worked with his wife, Vicki, publishing a monthly Horseback magazine, formerly known as the Texas Horse Talk.
Print and post reporters
After closing the newspaper In Between in 1988, Mr. Long spent six years as a feature writer for the Houston Chronicle and later as a casual worker covering well-known Texan cases for national publications. While in the Chronicle, he wrote investigative reports, including exposing the transactions of lawyer of the late Houston Leslie Thacker, who was convicted of buying and selling so-called drug addicts in several Texas county jails.. Long wrote a series of articles on library charges and convictions at the University of Texas Medical Branch for stealing rare and historic medical texts, some dating from the 16th century. Also at the Chronicle, he contributed an article raising questions about the use of state prison inmates to train medical residents in cosmetic surgery.
As a freelance contract correspondent, Long was commissioned by The New York Post to cover several high profile Texas criminal cases when they opened in the late 1990s. They include the case of Andrea Yates, convicted of drowning her five children in 2001, and an investigation into the fall of Enron Corporation. He also covered complex related trials from former Arthur Andersen accounting firm for Agence France Press and Crain's Chicago Business. His knowledge of the issues in these cases led to appearances as interview subjects in several television news magazine programs, including "Inside Edition," CBS Early Show, "Catherine Crier Live"
Long appeared on E! Network "Women Who Kill" series. He served as a consultant for the NBC Dateline series in his story about controversial New York City financier Robert Durst. He also served as a courtroom analyst and special correspondent with CNBC for hammer-to-gavel coverage from criminal hearings of former executives Enron Ken Lay and Jeffrey Skilling, with TV appearance updating cases for CNBC Squawk Program and Power Lunch program as well as NBC Nightly News with Brian Williams.
The first of his first crime books was released by Texas Monthly Press in 1987, transforming an investigation into the irregularities of a nursing home into Death Without Dignity: The First Nursing Hospital Story Indicted for Murder
Out of Control , released in 2004 by St. Martin True Crime Library, tells the much publicized story of Houston dentist Clara Harris, who was convicted of the 2002 murder of David Lynn Harris, his dentist. , taking him down with his car outside the local hotel where he caught him engaged in extramarital affairs.
Every Female Nightmare: The Fairytale Marriage and Brutal Murder of Lori Hacking in 2006, published by St. Martin Paperbacks, covering Utah's murder from housewife Lori Hacking, whose body was left in a city dump. The investigation eventually led to accusations against her husband, Mark, accused of killing him while he slept because he had revealed his lies to him about admission to medical school. The Long Book sparks opposition from members of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
He is a contributor to the true online crime blog that is now closed. In The Cold Blog .
Horses and journalism
As a fighter for horses who openly oppose the massacre, Long has appeared with his adoptive horse, Facade, in Animal Cops: Houston cable TV series while also publishing Horseback Magazine and contributing articles to Western Horseman magazine. An article he wrote about the massacre of healthy horses appeared in the publication of "New England Equine Rescues".
He was also awarded the American Quarter Horse Association for his 2003 article "Hoofbeats on Hollow Ground," published in Texas Parks and Wildlife magazine. Long also oversees the development of Horseback Online, which includes news-breaking pages about the horse industry. Long also served as vice president of the Texas State Horse Council.
He appeared in Saving America's Horse, a documentary about the controversial "mustang" roundabout in federal land in the southwestern part of the country.
In mid-2010, Long interviewed actor Tony Curtis, a horse lover whose wife Jill manages a horse rescue center, for an article on Cowboys & amp; Indian Magazine . It turned out to be Curtis's last interview before September 29, 2010, his death.
Fiction
In 2012, Long released his first fact-based novel, Ruby's Passing, about a murder committed in 1955 in Dickinson, Texas.
References
External links
- Publisher publisher page
- Author's author site
- True Crime Book Reviews, Every Woman's Nightmare , May 29, 2009
- Steven Long on IMDb
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