The River of No Return: The Missing Chapter

When I wrote The River of No Return: On the trail of Hannah Anderson and Jim DiMaggio, I had intended for an entire chapter about Jennifer Willis to be in the book. In fact, when the chapter was written and submitted to my former publisher, I was immediately sent on a media campaign tour to discuss this very important chapter. I was just as shocked as my readers when I found that this chapter was mysteriously missing from the published version of the book. I was also very shocked to see the numerous blatant errors in the "edited" version of the book, which included a fair amount of errors that weren't even in my manuscript. That is for a different story, though. The point of this post is because I owe it to every single person who purchased the book produced by Taylor Street Books/Taylor Street Publishing. You all purchased a book that was grossly neglected by the publisher and in turn you missed out on important details that belonged in the book. The following is the original chapter that I wrote after having a discussion with Jennifer Willis. This has not been edited by Taylor Street Books. However, they have an edited version that for some reason didn't find its way in the book they published. I have my own suspicions about this, but for now I have to operate under the belief that the publisher was sloppy and just "forgot" to put in the most important chapter in the book. I publish this original version with the intent to show that I did indeed work hard on this project and tried to push forth a quality body of work -- which was in turn sabotaged either deliberately or not.

I dedicate this chapter to Jennifer Willis, to Christina Anderson and to little Ethan. I also dedicate it to each and every one of you out there who were cheated out of this chapter after being led to believe (as I was ) that it would be in the book.