Jane Ann Turzillo is a local history and true crime writer. Her book Ohio Train Disasters was a national winner in the nonfiction book category of the 2015 National Federation of Press Women contest. She is also the author of Wicked Women of Northeast Ohio, Murder & Mayhem on Ohio’s Rails, Hudson, Ohio, and Bath Township, Ohio. Turzillo is a former owner of the weekly West Side Leader newspaper and a member of Mystery Writers of America, Sisters in Crime, and National Federation of Press.