Nancy Rommelmann

Listen to "Nancy Rommelmann Releases To The Bridge" on Spreaker. We have seen the news reports of parent murdering their kids including high profile cases like Andrea Yates who killed her 5 kids in their Houston bathtub or Susan Smith who pushed her 2 sleeping kids into a South Carolina lake. In 2009 in Portland, Oregon - AMANDA STOTT-SMITH- dropped her 2 children from a bridge! Her 4 year-old son died while her 7 year-old daughter survived. Amanda was arrested a few hours later and is serving a 35 year prison sentence. Now almost a decade later and after years of investigation – journalist NANCY ROMMELMANN chronicles this tragedy in the new book - TO THE BRIDGE. Illustrating the troubled mind behind a crime so unfathomable takes humility and empathy. The book is a delicately balanced piece of reporting that does not try to sway the reader as much as offer a deep and nuanced look into how such a crime can occur, to offer illumination, perhaps even hope of averting future incidents! Despite its complexity and resolve not to be told, the story of why a mother would seek to kill her children ultimately does reveal itself, in this gripping and important book!