David Bushman is the author of five nonfiction books, including two previous books on true crime: Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks and Forget It, Jake, It's Schenectady: The True Story Behind 'The Place Beyond the Pines.' He serves on the board of the New York chapter of the Mystery Writers of America. He spent over two decades as a television curator at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television + Radio) in New York. Before that he was program director at TV Land and a television editor at Variety.

Mark Givens co-authored the true crime Amazon bestseller Murder at Teal's Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks, published in January of 2022 by Thomas & Mercer. His writing has been featured in the Washington Post, and reviewed positively by Vanity Fair, Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Oxygen. From 2015 - 2017 he hosted a Twin-Peaks centric podcast (www.deermeadowradio.com) that, after a long dormant state, is threatening to revive and regenerate itself any day now…