TRUE CRIME. Investigative journalist Artis Henderson's "No Ordinary Bird"

Booktalk with Diana Korte · Sep 2, 2025 · 13m

Host Diana Korte speaks with Artis Henderson whose newest title, “NO ORDINARY BIRD. Drug Smuggling, a Plane Crash, and a Daughter's Quest for the Truth,” is a page-turning true crime book based on personal history, interviews with long-lost family members (and co-conspirators), along with government records. They all illuminate the life of her experienced pilot dad, Lamar Chester, who died in his private plane that was very likely sabotaged—and what lead up to that event. The author who was 5 years old then was with him, but survived with injuries. Her father had been one of the biggest…