My daughter Kait was chased down…
So Im particularly sensitive about desensitizing kids to violence and turning murder into a game.
The plot follows the group of four friends the summer after they graduate from high school.
Jennifer Love Hewitt in ‘I Know What You Did Last Summer’.
You might even remember that Duncanhatedthe adaptation and spoke out against violence in cinema when it was released.
She was accepted to Duke but dropped out when she got married.
Her first bookRansomwas about a group of high school students being held hostage on a school bus.
Wes Craven directed a TV movie of Duncans novelSummer of Fearin 1978.
The gore was beyond belief.
I write suspense and scary stuff, but I have never written gore in my entire life.
Lois Duncan on anUnsolved Mysteriesepisode.
I have never sensationalized violence.
Its always been a vehicle to show the pain that violence can cause.
Deeply traumatized by her daughters sudden death, Lois Duncan stopped writing horror and suspense novels.
Paul Apodaca through the years, via theAlbuquerque Police Department
Her later works were childrens books and prose and poetry about losing her daughter.
A segment about the murder even appeared onUnsolved Mysteriesduring the height of the shows popularity.
When police arrived at the scene, they found a man named Paul Apodaca standing by Kaitlyns car.
He was never interviewed about that night.
31 years later Apodaca confessed to murdering Kaitlyn,he said his motive was hatred for women.
- He even admitted to reading Lois Duncans book,Who Killed My Daughter?
The Startling True Story of a Mothers Search for Her Daughters Murderer.
Sadly Lois Duncan died in 2016 and never saw justice for her daughter.
