Wm StageWm. Stage has been an ambulance driver, soldier, public health officer, process server, and newspaper columnist. Orphaned at birth, he grew up in Grand Rapids, Michigan, and joined the army in 1969 to escape probation. In 1978, he landed in St. Louis recruited by the CDC as an investigator working in the St. Louis City STD Clinic. The author of 16 books, Litchfield: A Strange & Twisted Saga of Murder in the Midwest, was his third, first published in 1998. Read More Read Less