 This is Ozarks at Large. I'm Kyle Kellams. We're listening to some of our favorite author interviews from the first six months of 2024 today. Carrie Blakinger covers the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, the largest sheriff's department in the country, for the L.A. Times. Before that, she was a criminal justice reporter for the Houston Chronicle. Her path to journalism contains several twists. She was a teenage ice skater moving up the ranks of the sport. She attended Cornell University. She also struggled with an eating disorder and addiction.