Valerie Wigglesworth has been with The Dallas Morning News since 2000 and has worked as a reporter covering Collin County since 2009. She keeps tabs on cities and schools in one of the nation’s fastest growing areas. She also loves true-crime, where the details are sometimes stranger than fiction. She’s covered several high-profile trials and finds some of the most fascinating reads in court records. When she’s not writing or reading, she’s doing the family thing with her husband and two kids. She has a master's degree in journalism from the University of Missouri-Columbia.