When I met Star Myers, she wasn’t a headline.

She wasn’t the woman the public would eventually come to know through court records and news reports.

She was a mother.

A veteran.

An author.

A volunteer in her children’s school.

Star was a child rights activist who dedicated years of her life to helping abused women and children.

Star was compassionate, intelligent, funny, and generous. She had a beautiful smile and contagious laugh. She touched countless lives and inspired many people—including me.

When I learned she had been arrested in connection with the death of her husband, Richard Lee Bork, I felt disbelief unlike anything I had ever experienced.

How could someone who spent years advocating for others become the person accused of taking a life?

How does a marriage unravel so completely that it ends in violence?

What happens between the person everyone admires and the person standing before a judge in a courtroom?

Those questions refused to leave me.

The headlines told people what happened, but they never explained how.

As I searched for answers, I found myself looking far beyond one horrific night. I found a lifetime of trauma, addiction, deception, broken relationships, emotional manipulation, poor choices, and warning signs that were too impossible to ignore.

None of those things excuse murder.

Nothing ever could.

Rick Bork lost his life.

His family lost a son.

A brother.

A loved one.

Justice matters.

Accountability matters.

Victims matter.

But I also believe something else matters.

Understanding how lives unravel before they become headlines.

Fallen Star: Author, Activist, Murderer is a gripping true-crime memoir by lifelong friends Donna M. Kshir and Lee Cougardawn Roberts, revealing the shocking story of Star Myers — a woman they knew long before she took another person’s life.

Part memoir, part true crime, this book explores friendship, betrayal, and the devastating consequences of unchecked trauma, addiction, and anger. One choice. One moment. A life forever changed.

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Donna M. Kshir discusses her new book, Fallen Star: Author, Activist, Murderer, in which her once-friend was convicted of killing her husband, Richard Lee Bork. The book is part memoir and part true crime.

In the end, one life was destroyed, another shattered forever, and all it took was a series of choices: poor decisions, roaring addiction, unchecked anger, and unhealed trauma. Star's actions were hers alone, and the consequences were absolute: a senseless murder, a family torn apart, a future erased. Yet within this tragedy lies a stark warning: trauma left untreated, addictions unaddressed, uncontrolled anger, jealousy, and emotions unchecked can erupt into irreversible consequences.