A Conversation with Tamara Leitner

In April 1999, reporter Tamara Leitner woke to an active crime scene outside her Arizona apartment. Her neighbor had been sexually assaulted by a man who would later be identified as Claude Dean Hull II, a serial rapist who escaped justice for decades. New identities. New states. New victims―more than one hundred suspected across the country and thousands more victimized in myriad ways. Tamara’s twenty-year compulsion to follow the investigation began.

Tamara Leitner is a twelve-time Emmy Award–winning broadcast and print investigative journalist. She worked as a network correspondent, regularly reporting on the Today Show, NBC Nightly News, and MSNBC. Before joining NBC News in 2016, Leitner worked for local news outlets in New York City, Chicago, and Phoenix. She is the recipient of a 2011 George Foster Peabody Award, a 2012 Edward R. Murrow Award, and a 2018 GLAAD Media Award.

Leading the conversation will be Spokane’s own Mandi Price. Multiple Emmy nominee honored for her work on Daisy Jones and the Six, Little Fires Everywhere and currently on hold to produce Season 2 of Apple TV’s series Surface, we are excited to host Price returning to her alma mater, Gonzaga University, and introduce Spokane to this chilling memoir.