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MATT BIRKBECK is an author and award winning investigative journalist. A reporter for The Morning Call, he was a correspondent for People Magazine for nearly a decade and has also written for The New York Times, Reader’s Digest, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Boston Magazine and Rolling Stone. His books include A Beautiful Child, the remarkable true story of Sharon Marshall, a young woman who was kidnapped as a toddler by a felon and fugitive and raised as his daughter, and A Deadly Secret, the true story of the Robert Durst investigation. Durst, the bizarre scion of a powerful New York real estate family, allegedly killed his wife in 1982 and two others in 2000 and 2001. Birkbeck covered the Durst case for People Magazine and Reader’s Digest and consulted on a Durst program for CBS News in 2003. He also co-authored Till Death Do Us Part with Dr. Robi Ludwig, a frequent guest on Nancy Grace and Larry King Live. Birkbeck was awarded a prestigious Investigative Reporters and Editors award in 2002 for his groundbreaking series on mortgage fraud. His reporting on how hundreds of people, mostly minorities from the New York area, were fraudulently sold homes in Pennsylvania at inflated prices prompted numerous state and federal investigations and, in 2008, new state laws that provided tighter restrictions on Pennsylvania real estate transactions.
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