Background
Flowers, Anna was born on October 8, 1930 in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Daughter of Wilbur and Mildred Irene (Tall) Flowers.
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Bound to Die is the true crime story of Florida serial killer Bobby Joe Long, who was convicted of the heinous killings of nine women in 1984 in the Tampa Bay area. The first body of 19-year-old disco dancer Lana Long was found in a field on Mother’s Day with her legs grotesquely ripped apart. Six months later, the bloody rampage ended when the ninth victim was discovered. All had been tortured with ropes and savagely beaten and raped. The killer’s confession of his crimes is haunting. The vividly rendered results of his trials and appeals are equally shocking. First published by Kensington, NY in 1995, Bound to Die was internationally recognized. It received seven mass media printings and was issued in hardback as a Doubleday Mystery Guild Book Club selection. This second edition features a new foreword on a capital case which is still considered a definitive example of excellent police detection before DNA. Multiple television presentations have been made based on this book, some including the author’s participation. Shortly after first publication, a documentary based on the case was shown on Medical Detective that aired sporadically for years. In 2012, this story became the pilot for the new show Killer Profile on the Biography Channel. The Second Edition of BOUND TO DIE (Kensington, NY 1993) was released on Nov. 24th in ebook form, and the author Anna Flowes, was at the Authors Book Fair in Eau Galle on that day to talk about it. It is available on Sony, Gardners, Baker & Taylor, Google Play, iTunes, Kobo, Nook, Amazon, OmniLit, e-Sentral and the Book Hub website. The book contains a new 5,000 word updated Foreword about the case of serial killer Bobby Joe Long, and it will be available later in trade and mass media print. The original Kensington book received seven mass media printings, and was a Mystery Guild Book Club selection in hardback. Last year the author participated in two television documentaries on the case, which are being aired on A&E, Discovery and Biography channels. The first was the pilot show of "Killer Profile," the second was a production called "Surviving Evil". A third documentary, "Common Thread," which was a segment on Medical Detective after the initial release of BOUND TO DIE, is also being reshown. Sept. 21, 2012 author participated in film interview in Tampa for an A&E Documentary to be aired early next year. June 1, 2012 , Tampa, FL - Author participated in a two-hour on-camera interview for a new A&E television show, Killer Profile, which will feature the case of serial killer Bobby Joe Long, the subject of Flowers' best selling true crime book BOUND TO DIE. There is renewed interest in this case and the Killer Profile pilot show will air in the Fall of 2012. Author Flowers is also working on an Afterword for a new edition of the book. The case of Tampa Bay serial killer, Bobby Joe Long, is a classic in task force team work and forensic detection. A Doubleday Mystery Guild Book Club selection, it is a Medical Detective segment. "Common Thread," seen on TLC and Discovery TV channels. This second edition is published by Blue Star Books of Santa Cruz, California for 2014. Just in time, don't miss the UK broadcast during October/November of the recent interview of Anna Flowers to cover the ongoing case, the appeal process, and the eventual execution of Bobby Joe Long. Further coverage of the case and periodic updates may be found on the Blue Star Books publishing blog, bookhubinc.wordpress.com. Thank you.
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Flowers, Anna was born on October 8, 1930 in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. Daughter of Wilbur and Mildred Irene (Tall) Flowers.
Student, University Maryland., 1948-1949; student, Washington College, Chestertown, Maryland., 1949-1950; student, Trenton State University, 1962-1963; student, University Nebraska, 1966-1968.
Reporter, Sunday Star Newspaper, Wilmington, Delaware, 1950-1951; reporter, State News Bureau, Station WERE, Cleveland, 1951-1952; announcer/reporter, Station WCEM, Cambridge, Maryland., 1952-1953; art director, writer, Skipper Magazine, Annapolis, Maryland., 1953-1955; editor, The Supply Line, Guam., 1956-1957; family editor, Base Newspaper, Anderson Air Force Base, Guam., 1957-1958; editor, producer magazines, McGuire Air Force Base, Wrightstown, New Jersey, 1962-1963; editor, producer magazines, Offutt Air Force Base, Omaha, 1967-1968; editor, producer magazines, March Air Force Base, Riverside, California, 1969-1970; editor, producer magazines, Greenhill Country Club, Salisbury, Maryland., 1975-1977.
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(Bound to Die is the true crime story of Florida serial ki...)
Performer museum review March Air Force Base, 1969. Show director Cornhusker Museum Review, Offutt Air Force Base, 1971. Director The Ward Foundation, Salisbury, 1974.
Member Wicomico Bicentennial Committee, Salisbury, 1975-1976. Member Mystery Writers of America (Florida chapter board directors since 1996), Sisters-In-Crime, National League American Penwomen.
Married David Clinton Brotemarkle, June 25, 1955. Children: Belle Brotemarkle Turner, Benjamin David.