About Alene
Alene, born in Tacoma, Washington, is among the first Baby Boomers. After graduating from Bellevue High School in 1965, she balanced full-time work as an Insurance Claims Investigator with night classes at community college. Her passion for understanding people led her to study Psychology at the University of Washington.
Upon retiring in 2013, Alene embarked on a journey to uncover a long-standing family mystery—the disappearance of her great-grand aunt Beatrice, a well-to-do young widow who vanished in 1919 after marrying a gentleman she met on a train. What began as a personal quest soon evolved into the discovery of an incredible true crime story involving a serial killer at the turn of the 20th century.
Alene's Writing
Pacific NW Earthquake, April, 13, 1949
I recently found a letter my mother wrote to my father after the major 7.1 earthquake that struck the Seattle/Tacoma area on April 13, 1949. Coincidentally, I discovered the letter the same day reports emerged about earthquakes in Venezuela, California, and Japan. At the time of the earthquake, my mother was 22 years old. During…
A Different Kind of Childhood
My life began in fragments—passed from one set of arms to another before I was old enough to recognize a face or remember a voice. I was born in 1947, but the roots of my story reach back to 1944, to two young parents who were not yet ready for the responsibilities that came with…