True Crime Author David Bushman

Crime author David Bushman will give a talk at SLCA to commemorate the Hazel Drew historical marker unveiling on Taborton Road and Mosher Road. The talk is cosponsored by the Sand Lake Historical Society, which will unveil a historical marker (thanks to a grant from the William G. Pomeroy Foundation) near the site where Hazel Drew’s body was discovered in 1908.

David Bushman, author of two books about “true crimes” in Sand Lake and Schenectady, will discuss his work, He is the author of five nonfiction books, two on true crime and three on pop culture. Both true crime books are set in the Capital Region: “Murder at Teal’s Pond: Hazel Drew and the Mystery That Inspired Twin Peaks” (Thomas + Mercer, 2022) and “Forget It, Jake, It’s Schenectady: The True Story Behind The Place Beyond the Pines” (Fayetteville Mafia Press, 2022). He is currently working on a third local crime book about the unsolved murder of Samantha Humphrey, the 14-year-old Schenectady girl who was last seen alive on Black Friday 2022 just prior to a late-night rendezvous with an ex-boyfriend.

Bushman spent two decades as a TV curator at The Paley Center for Media (formerly The Museum of Television + Radio) and before that as a TV editor at Variety and program director at TV Land.

This program is funded by Arts Thrive and Grow. Arts Thrive and Grow has been funded by New York State (Kathy Hochul, Governor). We thank Senate Majority Leader Andrea Stewart-Cousins for her extraordinary commitment and leadership and our elected officials who represent our grantmaking region: Senators Jake Ashby and Neil D. Breslin; Assemblymembers Scott H. Bendett, Patricia Fahy, John T. McDonald III, Angelo Santabarbara, Phil Steck, and Mary Beth Walsh.

Oct. 6; historical marker unveiling at 1 p.m., reception at SLCA at 1:15 p.m., talk at 2 p.m.