True Crime Book Club

Name: True Crime Book Club
Start: 2025-10-09T18:00:00-04:00
End: 2025-10-09T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 248 Main St, Johnstown, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15901

Schedule

Thu Oct 09 2025 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

248 Main St, Johnstown, PA, United States, Pennsylvania 15901 | Johnstown, PA

True Crime Book Club meets on the second Thursday of the month.
Murders, heists, kidnappings, fraud—we read and discuss true stories about them all. Conspire with us to share your “whodunnit” theories at our friendly gathering of this fascinating genre.
Note: Book selections are non-fiction, and may contain disturbing content. Reader discretion is advised.
𝗜𝗻 𝗦𝗲𝗽𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗯𝗲𝗿, 𝘄𝗲'𝗹𝗹 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗰𝘂𝘀𝘀 "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗲𝘀𝘀 𝗣𝗲𝗼𝗽𝗹𝗲 𝗞𝗻𝗼𝘄 𝗔𝗯𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗨𝘀: 𝗔 𝗠𝘆𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗳 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝗿𝗮𝘆𝗮𝗹, 𝗙𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗦𝗲𝗰𝗿𝗲𝘁𝘀, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗦𝘁𝗼𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗜𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗶𝘁𝘆" 𝗯𝘆 𝗔𝘅𝘁𝗼𝗻 𝗕𝗲𝘁𝘇-𝗛𝗮𝗺𝗶𝗹𝘁𝗼𝗻
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AN EDGAR AWARDS 2020 WINNER AND WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER
In this powerful true crime memoir, an award-winning identity theft expert tells the shocking story of the duplicity and betrayal that inspired her career and nearly destroyed her family.
Axton Betz-Hamilton grew up in small-town Indiana in the early '90s. When she was 11 years old, her parents both had their identities stolen. Their credit ratings were ruined, and they were constantly fighting over money. This was before the age of the Internet, when identity theft became more commonplace, so authorities and banks were clueless and reluctant to help Axton's parents.
Axton's family changed all of their personal information and moved to different addresses, but the identity thief followed them wherever they went. Convinced that the thief had to be someone they knew, Axton and her parents completely cut off the outside world, isolating themselves from friends and family. Axton learned not to let anyone into the house without explicit permission, and once went as far as chasing a plumber off their property with a knife.
As a result, Axton spent her formative years crippled by anxiety, quarantined behind the closed curtains in her childhood home. She began starving herself at a young age in an effort to blend in--her appearance could be nothing short of perfect or she would be scolded by her mother, who had become paranoid and consumed by how others perceived the family.
Years later, her parents' marriage still shaken from the theft, Axton discovered that she, too, had fallen prey to the identity thief, but by the time she realized, she was already thousands of dollars in debt and her credit was ruined.
The Less People Know About Us is Axton's attempt to untangle an intricate web of lies, and to understand why and how a loved one could have inflicted such pain. Axton will present a candid, shocking, and redemptive story and reveal her courageous effort to grapple with someone close that broke the unwritten rules of love, protection, and family.