Authors
Lou Michel and Dan Herbeck

Lou Michel
Lou Michel is an award-winning journalist honored several times over by The Associated Press during a career spanning over a quarter of a century.  He is married to Barbara Michel who he met in his senior year at Buffalo State College.  They have three children and make their home in Niagara County, NY.  

After graduating from the Buffalo State mass communication program, Michel spent the first 15 years of his career at the Tonawanda News, a small community newspaper in North Tonawanda, NY.  Along with his wife, he cared for an elderly man by the name of Ben Koeppen, a retired farmer, and the subject of a book Michel is currently completing.

Michel has written a number of stories of national interest.  In 2002, he reported on a white supremacist group attempting to gain a foothold in nearby western Pennsylvania.  He also scored exclusive interviews with Adelphia cable TV founder John Rigas, who faces corporate fraud charges.  And, most recently, Michel and Dan Herbeck obtained a jailhouse confession from James C. Kopp, the man later convicted of murdering Amherst physician Barnett A. Slepian.  Kopp is also suspected in the shootings of several other doctors in Canada.

Michel witnessed Timothy McVeigh's execution on June 11, 2001, and has written extensively about terrorism.

Dan Herbeck
Dan Herbeck has been a reporter at The Buffalo News for 25 years.  Born in Mineral Wells, TX, he was raised in Amherst, NY.  A graduate of the St. Bonaventure University journalism program, Herbeck is an investigative reporter specializing in crime and the courts.  With his frequent Buffalo News partner, Michael Beebe, he has won national and state awards for stories on telemarketing fraud, bankruptcy fraud, government corruption and the New York state prison system.

In another team effort with Lou Michel, Herbeck recently obtained a jailhouse confession from James C. Kopp, the man later convicted of murdering Amherst physician Barnett A. Slepian.  Kopp is also suspected in the shootings of several other doctors in Canada.

Herbeck and his wife, Joyce, a middle-school guidance counselor, have two sons.

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