Overview
Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women--many teenagers--died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a fifty-mile stretch of highway running from Houston to Galveston. The victims were strangled, shot, or savagely beaten. The day she vanished, Colette Wilson waited for her mother after band practice. Best friends Debbie Ackerman and Maria Johnson loved to surf and were last seen hitchhiking. Laura Kate Smither dreamed of becoming a ballerina and disappeared just weeks before her thirteenth birthday. In this harrowing true crime exposition, award-winning journalist Kathryn Casey tracks these tragic cases, investigates the evidence, interviews the suspects, and pulls back the cloak of secrecy in search of elusive answers.
Full Product Details
Author: Kathryn Casey ,
Tanya Eby
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Imprint: Tantor Audio
Edition: Unabridged edition
ISBN: 9798200018017
Publication Date: 17 March 2015
Audience:
General/trade
,
General
Format: Audio
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately.
Reviews
"Casey's vivid writing and dogged research establish her as one of the very best true crime writers in the business.-- ""Carlton Stowers, author of Careless Whispers"" ""A true-crime classic! A chilling study where both the victim and the stalker are bizarre and inscrutable...by one of the best in the true crime genre."" -- ""Ann Rule, New York Times bestselling author of Too Late to Say Goodbye"" ""Casey's vivid writing and dogged research establish her as one of the very best true crime writers in the business."" -- ""Carlton Stowers, author of Careless Whispers"" ""Texas' Interstate 45 gained its 'Highway of Hell' nickname because of its numerous traffic accidents, but it was a nearby stretch that became infamous worldwide as the Texas Killing Fields. Over three-decades, the corpses of dozens of women and girls, many of them as young as twelve, were found there, strangled, shot, or beaten to death...Accomplished true-crime writer Kathryn Casey delves behind the horrific headlines to tell the stories of the victims, the crimes, the victim's families, and the main suspects with news-breaking interviews and investigation."" -- ""Barnes&Noble.com, editorial review"""
Author Information
An award-winning journalist, Kathryn Casey has written for Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Reader's Digest, and Texas Monthly, among other publications. She is the author of several highly acclaimed true crime books, as well as the Sarah Armstrong mystery series. Singularity, the first in the Sarah Armstrong series, was included in Booklist's best crime novel debuts of 2009, and Library Journal chose the third in the series, The Killing Storm, for its list of the best books of 2010. Kathryn has appeared on various television programs and networks, including the Oprah Winfrey Show, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, Court TV, Nancy Grace, E! Network, and A&E. Kathryn lives in Houston, Texas. Tanya Eby is an Audie-nominated and AudioFile Earphones Award-winning narrator. AudioFile magazine says, ""Listening to Tanya Eby is like listening to a full-cast recording."" Tanya has a BA in English language and literature and an MFA in creative writing. Besides narrating, Tanya blogs and works on her own novels. She has published four novels and is at work on her fifth.
