Downey, Rebecca Jean J.: - Rebecca Jean Downey is an award-winning writer with a journalism degree from Indiana University. For the last 20 years she has worked in higher education as a marketing and fundraising specialist. Rebecca has also had a life-long interest in criminal justice, and has published articles on law enforcement inssures in magazines, newspapers and journals. Inspiration for the Penny Larkin Thriller Series came from a professional relationship with the late El Paso County Sheriff, Leo Sameniego and her interested in Controlled Remote Viewing, a psychic spying technique developed by the CIA and Stanford University during the Cold War.