Her investigations have been profiled in the Wall Street Journal, Indianapolis Monthly Magazine, many television and radio programs, The CBS Evening News, Inside Edition, Hard Copy, and The 700 Club.
In addition, Carol has freelanced as a correspondent and feature writer for The Indianapolis News and Indianapolis Star. She has also freelanced for Newman Video Services in San Jose, California, which produces documentaries, and has been a writer and correspondent for Charisma Magazine in Lake Mary, Florida. Her most recent article for Charisma Magazine was her story on "Former President William Jefferson Clinton."
Carol has received a first place national award at The National Federation of Press Women Conference for her cover story about a USAIR crash survivor. She has received the Thomas R. Keating Feature Writing Award twice. The first occasion was for "Best Deadline Feature" - "Drug Dealing in Indianapolis" - and the second was "Best Overall Winner" for her features on "Cab Drivers", "Teenage Suicide", and "Battered Women."
Carol has received the Eugene Pulliam Scholarship twice. She received a bronze medal of honor, an award in 1995 from The National Vidocq Society, in Philadelphia, for "Outstanding Contribution To Law Enforcement in the United States", for her efforts in helping to solve the oldest murder mystery in the history of Indianapolis, Indiana. In 1996, Carol won a second award from The Vidocq Society, a plaque entitled, "EVERYONE LOOKED BUT ONLY YOU SAW."
In 2006, Carol's sensational bestseller, "The LaSalle Street Murders" was released, and recently she's authored three additional books: "Miracles really do happen! Answers to Prayers that Touch the Heart"; "Help Mommy Clean-up"; and "THE DAYS OF ALL LIVES". A fifth book, "The Gynecologist" will be released soon -- and Carol's sixth book, "Hand Over Heart" has been published, released and is now in a bookstore near you!
She is also authoring, "Pure Heart: The Biography of One Man's Message to America" (the true story of a young man known to be one of the greatest youth pastors in America - killed in 2001), which is currently being written for the Richard M. Bourke Foundation.
-Sgt. Ken York (Ret.), Indiana State Police
"I think it's incredible for someone to have the gift of being able to read into people and express it on paper. Carol Sissom has a gift from God to investigate and write about it."
-Joe Matthews, DNA Lifeprint, Former Supervisor, Miami Beach Homicide Division
"Don't read this book at night."
-Linda Knowles, Clearwater, Florida
"I must say, your book held me, barely letting me breathe, right up to the last word."
-Indianapolis reader
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Indianapolis, IN 46217
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