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Life sentence No matter how hard James Wrigley strives to live a better life, he’ll always see a murderer staring back at him whenever he looks in the mirror.	Living with hoarding disorder The thought of sorting through and getting rid of the hundreds of items consuming her small apartment in Victoria left Susan feeling tremendously overwhelmed.	Chris Hadfield talks space travel With a one in 38 chance of dying during the first nine minutes, Chris Hadfield knew blasting into space came with an enormous risk.
Refugees celebrate one year Stumbling around the living room like a typical 17-month-old girl, Loujain Shelleh is all smiles until she falls into the corner of the couch in her family’s three-bedroom apartment in Esquimalt.	Frozen in fear April 23, 1975 is a day that filled Shelley Campbell with so much fear that she's spent a lifetime hiding from a killer.	Life in the homicide unit It was around 2 a.m. when Det. Paul Gregory was woken from a deep sleep by a call from his colleagues, informing him of a possible murder.
Escaping street life She’s known on the street as mom and treats the girls as if they were her own.	Emerging explorer Genevieve von Petzinger knew she wanted to be an archeologist ever since she was a child.	Omar Khadr "very polite" student It’s a story Arlette Zinck describes as a grotesque injustice that boggles the mind.
Frozen fighters On a Thursday afternoon in mid-February, members of Edmonton’s 3rd Batallion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) are notified about a downed aircraft somewhere in the Arctic.	Man survives stabbing spree His arm wrapped in heavy bandages, Mahmoud Ayesh says he's "lucky" to have survived the stabbing spree at a west-end warehouse where two of his colleagues died.

For Pamela, storytelling is a passion and she knows what it takes to tell a great story. The crime beat at the Edmonton Sun is where she began to create a name for herself as a strong storyteller, writing features on a number of issues, such as street gangs, prostitution, cold case murders, homicide detectives and soldiers training in the Canadian arctic in the dead of winter. Below is a collection of some of Pamela's favourite stories that she's written during her journalism career.

Pamela Roth

Journalist. Author. Photographer.

Life sentence

No matter how hard James Wrigley strives to live a better life, he’ll always see a murderer staring back at him whenever he looks in the mirror.

Living with hoarding disorder

The thought of sorting through and getting rid of the hundreds of items consuming her small apartment in Victoria left Susan feeling tremendously overwhelmed.

Chris Hadfield talks space travel

With a one in 38 chance of dying during the first nine minutes, Chris Hadfield knew blasting into space came with an enormous risk.

Refugees celebrate one year

Stumbling around the living room like a typical 17-month-old girl, Loujain Shelleh is all smiles until she falls into the corner of the couch in her family’s three-bedroom apartment in Esquimalt.

Frozen in fear

April 23, 1975 is a day that filled Shelley Campbell with so much fear that she's spent a lifetime hiding from a killer.

Life in the homicide unit

It was around 2 a.m. when Det. Paul Gregory was woken from a deep sleep by a call from his colleagues, informing him of a possible murder.

Escaping street life

She’s known on the street as mom and treats the girls as if they were her own.

Emerging explorer

Genevieve von Petzinger knew she wanted to be an archeologist ever since she was a child.

Omar Khadr "very polite" student

It’s a story Arlette Zinck describes as a grotesque injustice that boggles the mind.

Frozen fighters

On a Thursday afternoon in mid-February, members of Edmonton’s 3rd Batallion of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry (3 PPCLI) are notified about a downed aircraft somewhere in the Arctic.

Man survives stabbing spree

His arm wrapped in heavy bandages, Mahmoud Ayesh says he's "lucky" to have survived the stabbing spree at a west-end warehouse where two of his colleagues died.