Write a memoir or turn it into fiction?

What if a person's life was, oh, not at all typical to the point of either witnessing or experiencing things as sordid as various forms of child abuse, child pornography, child prostitution, attempted infanticide, attempted murder, multiple successful murders (as in, no body ever found, murderer never suspected), off shore bank accounts to launder money, scams and collusion in an industry, bribery and extortion, stalking, murder for hire, organized crime... Things that are so beyond what "normal" (whoever they are) people are familiar with.

What if that person on the one hand wanted to write about it but on the other hand would not be willing to write it under his/her own name or in any other way have his/her real name associated with it (fear of repercussions, ya know)? The writer would not be able to use that book, if successful, to propel his/her writing career forward. But then, who would believe it? So much happened that really, who would ever believe it possible?

Or this writer could fictionalize it. Turn it into a series of novels instead - break the experiences into a series of novels to make it more believable.

Use the novels to build a readership.


What would you suggest this writer do? More importantly, why?

Right. So truth be damned because it's far too impossible to be even remotely believable.

Thanks.