Riocard Kelly is an Irish crime reporter and writer whose work spans investigative journalism, narrative non-fiction, and the intersection of criminal justice and social inequality. A native of Ireland currently based in County Clare, Kelly has spent years examining how institutional systems - policing, forensics, the courts - succeed and fail the people they are designed to protect, with particular focus on the cases that fall through the gaps of official attention. The Bayou Strangler represents Kelly's most ambitious undertaking to date: a transatlantic investigation into one of America's most consequential serial murder cases, combining forensic analysis, sociological theory, and the biographical reconstruction of twenty-three lives that institutional indifference rendered invisible. Kelly brings to the American material the specific perspective of an outsider trained in the Irish tradition of rigorous public interest journalism - a tradition that has never flinched from examining the structural conditions through which powerful institutions fail ordinary people. Kelly's writing has appeared across Irish and international publications. The Bayou Strangler is his first full-length book.