I don't know how I feel about this, I don't see it as beneficial to anyone other than Patterson, if he had information it should have been given to the authorities.... just my thoughts.
I’ve never read any of Patterson’s books, but I’ve always been aware of him generally and assume he is respected and has a good reputation.
That article says he’s working on this book with Vicky Ward. I became aware of her from following the Murdaugh trial and the boat case.
So it’s going to be a hard No for me on that book.
jmo
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Ward is a journalist working on a documentary entitled "The Murdaugh Murders," which released an online trailer Nov. 24. The trailer video incorporates six different sections from a confidential mediation video belonging to the Beach family, the suit alleges.
The suit states that Ward and others aided and abetted the other defendants in their civil conspiracy "to inflict severe emotional distress upon the Plaintiffs and to harass them in a manner so unconscionable it shocks the conscience."
The Beach family states in the civil complaint that at no time did they ever agree to participate in "Ward’s tasteless and completely obscene production."
The suit further states: "In an attempt to get the Plaintiffs and their counsel to appear in her documentary, Vicky Ward acknowledged that Parker and his law firm, referencing Defendant D’Cruz’s law firm Baker Hostetler, 'had an agenda' and that she had 'nothing to do with them other than having their stuff.'
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This conspiracy was allegedly done by Parker and his attorneys providing videos and photos, which were reportedly confidential images to be used in the wrongful death civil mediation process, to Ward, a New York-based journalist.
These confidential images included photographs of Mallory Beach’s dead body as it was discovered on a mud flat in a Beaufort County river, a week after the fatal boat crash, the suit contends. These images also include other members of the Beach family, which they say were stolen for the profit of others as well as being an invasion of their privacy.
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According to her website, Ward is a New York Times bestselling author, a former journalist for CNN and HuffPost, and most recently the host and producer of “Chasing Ghislaine,” a project based on the lives of Jeffrey Epstein and Ghislaine Maxwell, which has been published as Audible Original podcast and a Discovery Plus documentary.
Legal twists continue to arise from a fatal boat crash involving the Murdaugh family of Hampton County, South Carolina. Here's what we know
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