THE INCREDIBLE LIFE & MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF DOROTHY KILGALLEN

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A FASCINATING AND COLORFUL BIOGRAPHY THAT COVERS INTIMATE NEW DETAILS OF DOROTHY'S LIFE THAT NO ONE ELSE HAS EVER REPORTED!

Since penning the widely acclaimed Midwest Today magazine article “Who Killed Dorothy Kilgallen?” in 2007, award-winning journalist Sara Jordan-Heintz has spent years researching this trailblazing woman.

Dorothy Kilgallen may be best known as a panelist on the game show “What’s My Line?” but as a syndicated writer with the Hearst papers, her “Voice of Broadway” column was devoured by millions of daily readers. And as an investigative journalist, she covered some of the biggest stories and court cases of the mid-20^th century, even securing a Pulitzer Prize nomination.

A pioneering television and radio personality, she was also a fashion icon, threw extravagant parties and engaged in feuds with famous men including Frank Sinatra, Jack Paar, Johnny Carson and even a prominent Catholic priest.

After her friend President John F. Kennedy was assassinated, Dorothy courageously challenged the official account of his death by doing a series of explosive articles that unearthed important new leads. Jack Ruby’s own lawyer, Melvin Belli, labeled her reporting “the ruin of the Warren Commission.” Dorothy was the only reporter to score private talks with the enigmatic Ruby. She vowed to blow the lid off the cover-up and expose the truth behind the Kennedy assassination, but died trying.

In her magazine article, Jordan-Heintz was the first to print the name of the man who romanced DK and then became the number one (unofficial) suspect when she died; the first author to present eyewitness interviews with people close to Dorothy who were never questioned by police; the first to get incriminating quotes from the suspected killer; the first to reveal shocking new forensic evidence of foul play.

THE INCREDIBLE LIFE & MYSTERIOUS DEATH OF DOROTHY KILLGALLEN is a biography and true crime drama that explores the complexities of Dorothy's private and personal lives, showcasing her work as a formidable reporter and astute observer of geopolitics.

Shockingly, Jordan-Heintz has found the SMOKING GUN that links Kilgallen’s suspected killer to the CIA, and reveals his confessed role (captured on audiotape) in a controversial CIA operation that was launched by Allen Dulles, and run by E. Howard Hunt and Frank Sturgis. The author also explores the suspect’s time at Stanford and confirms he attended an assassin’s school in Panama.

For the first time, the author traces the evolution of Dorothy’s investigation of the JFK conspiracy, quoting from many of her articles and showing how prescient her reporting was. Recently declassified government documents confirm Dorothy turned up vital new facts that put her life in danger. For Kennedy assassination buffs, Jordan-Heintz explores the myriad of new revelations about the case that most Americans don’t know.

Ernest Hemingway called Dorothy Kilgallen the best female writer in the world. This is her story. 

Jordan-Heintz is the recipient of the Outstanding Young Journalist of the Year Award from the Iowa Newspaper Assn., whose work has appeared in newspapers nationwide via the Associated Press and USA Today Network, and whose byline appears often in niche magazines. She also is the author of Going Hollywood: Midwesterners In Movieland and a novella, A Day Saved Is A Day Earned. She was an honors graduate from the University of Iowa with degrees in American Studies and History.