Citizen Jane is a 1999 true crime non-fiction book by James Dalessandro about the real-life efforts of a woman to track down the con artist who murdered her aunt.

In 2009, the book was adapted into a Hallmark Channel film starring Ally Sheedy, Meat Loaf, Sean Patrick Flanery, and Nia Peeples.

[1][citation needed] Jane Alexander was a sheltered, attractive widow living with her large, close-knit family in her small hometown of Truckee, California.

He had used wit, charm, and tales of adventure to borrow money for extensive home business operations and investing.

[2] James Dalessandro first read about Jane Alexander's story in the mid-1990s on the front page of the Pacific Sun in Marin County, California.