North Dakota was home to Connie Nelson for most of her career in marketing and communications, where she also researched and wrote several monographs to educate the public on topics of local historical interest as a community volunteer. After retiring in 2018 and moving to Santa Fe, New Mexico, she became active in local writing and publishing circles, which led to writing her first book, Cavalier-The Story of an Unsolved Murder in a Small Town, a firsthand account of a traumatic 1986 incident. The COVID pandemic provided the time to research and participate in on-line workshops to hone her writing and publishing skills, so as the world stood still for a couple of years, Connie utilized her downtime to write this story.
Investigative oversights, technological shortcomings, and media assumptions hinder the case, while rumors and speculation about Wahl's potential secret life swirl among locals...Nelson, a close friend of the victim, gracefully examines the process of grief and the impact of a killing on those left behind, especially in a tight-knit community, resulting in an intimate and oftentimes startling portrait of America's flawed justice system, and how it affects everyday people. -Self Publishing Review, June 2022