Antigua wasn’t Dawson Fearnow’s initial vacation destination, but with COVID-19 continually canceling his family trip to Tahiti, he pivoted. The PR pro and freelance writer, along with his wife and son, chose the tiny Caribbean island – located in the Lesser Antilles island chain about 300 miles east of Puerto Rico – to escape the crowds and relax. Fearnow and his wife, Maggie, who are avid scuba divers, didn’t even have time for the activity...
Photo by Maggie Fearnow Stories have a way of taking on lives of their own. Writer Dawson Fearnow has learned this time and again as a journalist specializing in historical crime writing. “That’s why I only write about dead criminals,” Fearnow says. “Especially after two DEA agents showed up at my front door holding a copy of a story I wrote about a local designer drug kingpin.” PHOENIX has been fortunate to have Fearnow write a number of true-crime pieces for our history column, centered...
