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James Renner

Akron, New York
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Author, A Cruise to Nowhere; Board Member, The Porchlight Project. Pods: True Crime This Week; Philosophy of Crime: linktr.ee/jamesrenner
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How the Rise of Mystery Podcasts Created the True Crime Memoir Boom

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By James Renner
| CrimeReads Verified
A couple years before Amy Bradley vanished on a family cruise in 1998, she dated a woman named Kat. They fell in love at Longwood University in central Virginia, at time when it was still dangerous to be open and gay, especially in the south. They would often drive down to the Outer Banks and stay at a rented house where they could live as their true selves for a time without being fearful of what their family or friends might think if they caught them holding hands.
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A Cruise to Nowhere: My Search for Amy Lynn Bradley|Hardcover

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By James Renner
Gripping, suspenseful, and layered with insight, this is the first full account of the infamous disappearance of Amy Lynn Bradley while onboard a cruise ship in the Caribbean—from the acclaimed author of True Crime Addict. In March 1998, the Bradley family—Ron, Iva, and their children, Amy and Brad—boarded the Rhapsody of the Seas for a week-long Caribbean cruise. The trip was a chance to celebrate Ron’s success at work and Amy’s college graduation.
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A Moment of Play

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By James Renner
| Substack
I want you to watch a video with me. It’s only four minutes long and I promise it will lift up your soul. It’s a recording of Queen’s performance of “Radio Ga Ga,” at Wembley stadium in London for Live Aid, which took place on Saturday, July 13, 1985. In case you weren’t born yet, Live Aid was a benefit concert which was organized as a fund raiser for a terrible famine in Ethiopia.
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