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.

PA HB849 Session 2025-2026 is on its way to the House of Representatives, sponsored by PA State Representative Aaron Bernstine. Donna Kshir shares a few words on the journey and gives thanks to those who supported her along the way.

Join Laurie and Donna as they discuss their recent "Voices for the Voiceless Advocacy Documentary" that premiered on Tuesday, April 08, 2025.

Please see the information below regarding this very special documentary! • Voices for the Voiceless Advocacy Doc... Advocates Donna M. Kshir, Lee "Cougardawn" Roberts, Michael Skinner and Laurie Ann Smith came together to speak about their experiences as an Advocate and how they got started in being a public voice for the those whose voices were silenced and in many cases are still being silenced. This Premiere coincides with Author, Advocate, Activist Donna M. Kshir's 30 year Anniversary in the Advocacy world. It is our hope that our voices will continue to be heard for years to come through our video and audio broadcasts, through our books, through our work to promote Child Abuse Prevention and many other causes, as well as through our music.

Join Laurie and Donna as they discuss their recent "Voices for the Voiceless Advocacy Documentary" that premiered on Tuesday, April 08, 2025.

Please see the information below regarding this very special documentary! • Voices for the Voiceless Advocacy Doc... Advocates Donna M. Kshir, Lee "Cougardawn" Roberts, Michael Skinner and Laurie Ann Smith came together to speak about their experiences as an Advocate and how they got started in being a public voice for the those whose voices were silenced and in many cases are still being silenced. This Premiere coincides with Author, Advocate, Activist Donna M. Kshir's 30 year Anniversary in the Advocacy world. It is our hope that our voices will continue to be heard for years to come through our video and audio broadcasts, through our books, through our work to promote Child Abuse Prevention and many other causes, as well as through our music.

​Advocates Donna M. Kshir, Lee "Cougardawn" Roberts, Michael Skinner, and Laurie Ann Smith came together to speak about their experiences as advocates and how they got started in being a public voice for those whose voices were silenced and in many cases are still being silenced.
​This Premiere coincides with Author, Advocate, Activist Donna M. Kshir's 30 year Anniversary in the Advocacy world. Our hope is that our voices will continue to be heard for years through our video and audio broadcasts, our books, our work to promote Child Abuse Prevention and many other causes as well as through our music. Please see our websites below for more information about what we do! Thank you for your support!!

- Laurie Ann Smith

PA State Rep Aaron Bernstine thanks Donna Kshir, Lee Roberts and Laurie Ann Smith for the years they spent advocating for the rights of children. Rep. Bernstine shares his thoughts on the email he received from Donna Kshir in August 2024 presenting him with her idea of a public child abuse registry. Donna and best friend Lee Cougardawn Roberts spent 9 years petitioning for a public child abuse registry in Pennsylvania. The idea came to Donna as she was working on Conner's Law - Kentucky. Ronald Saunders ll tortured and killed 2 year old Conner Bachauss. He served 5.5 years in prison for Conner's death. A month after being released from prison Ronald would abuse yet another child. It was then Donna thought if there was a public database like Megan's Law but for violent offenders convicted of child abuse -- it could be used as a tool to prevent child abuse. One could look it up to see if someone had ever been convicted of a violent crime against a child before getting involved with them, inviting them into their home or getting into a relationship with them. That information could be used protect children and ultimately save lives.

Donna, Rep. Bernstine and Lee appeared on The Whole Issue hosted by Canadian - American radio personality Laurie Ann Smith on September 4, 2024.

Currently, Rep. Bernstine created a bill known as PA HB 849 2025-2026 Regular Session.