Kathryn Casey

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Kathryn Casey
Kathryn Casey at the 2009 Texas Book Festival
Born	Wauwatosa, Wisconsin
Occupation	Crime writer, novelist
Nationality	United States
Period	1984-present
Genres	Crime fiction
Subjects	True crime
www.kathryncasey.com

Kathryn Casey is an American true crime writer, novelist and journalist. Author Ann Rule has called Casey "one of the best in the true crime genre."^[1] She is best known for writing She Wanted It All, which recounts the case of Celeste Beard, who married an Austin multimillionaire only to convince her lesbian lover, Tracey Tarlton, to kill him.

Early life and education

Born in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, Casey moved to Texas with her family in 1980. She attended the University of Houston, where she earned a degree in journalism.

Career

In 1984, Casey began her writing career as an intern at the now-defunct Houston City Magazine. When she left two years later, she was a senior editor. Next, Casey worked for two years as editor of Ultra, a state-wide magazine geared toward wealthy Texans.

In the years after Ultra, Casey wrote for a national audience, with her articles appearing in Ladies' Home Journal, where she was a contributing editor for 18 years, as well as More (magazine), TV Guide, Rolling Stone, Seventeen, Reader's Digest, and Texas Monthly. During her more than two decades as a magazine journalist, Casey interviewed celebrities, including movie, television, and recording stars, presidents and first ladies. She covered subjects that ranged from the Oklahoma City bombing, the aftermath of 9/11, and Hurricane Katrina, to infertility and the McCaughey Septuplets.

Many of Casey's articles examined sensational crimes. In the early 1990s, she took one case, which was the subject of a Ladies' Home Journal article about a serial rapist attacking Houston-area women, and turned it into her first book, The Rapist's Wife. After its release, Casey moved away from magazine writing to concentrate on non-fiction, fact-based crime books.

Her book Shattered was included in True Crime Book Reviews' Top 10 book awards for 2010.^[2]

Casey's seventh true crime book covered the Matt Baker case in Waco, Texas, about the Baptist minister who was convicted of killing his wife and staging it to look like a suicide.^[3] Baker, sentenced to 65 years, resides in the Allan B. Polunsky Unit, a Texas state prison. Cy-Fair Magazine, upon the July 2012 release of the book Deadly Little Secrets, covered the Baker case and others in a feature article about Casey.^[4] The Houston Chronicle also covered the release of the book.^[5] Deadly Little Secrets was the inspiration for the film Sins of the Preacher, which aired on the Lifetime television network in September 2013.^[6]

Based on Casey's experience covering crime, she turned to crime fiction. In 2009, Booklist, the publication of the American Library Association, named Casey's debut novel, Singularity, one of the "Best Crime Novel Debuts of 2009" on its Bestseller Lists.^[7] The main character in her mystery series is Sarah Armstrong, a Texas Ranger and a criminal profiler. In Singularity, Armstrong travels across Texas hunting a deviant serial killer. Library Journal picked the third in the series, The Killing Storm, as a best book of 2010 in its mystery category.^[8]

Casey was a co-founder of Women in Crime Ink, which has been described by the Wall Street Journal as "a blog worth reading."^[9]

In July 2011, she wrote an article for Forbes Woman about new options available to authors with the advent of eBooks and self-publishing.^[10]

Casey lives in Houston with her husband.

Appearances

In 1995, Casey appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show to discuss The Rapist's Wife along with the subject in the title, Linda Bergstrom. In the years since, Casey has appeared on Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, Court TV, Biography, Nancy Grace, E! Network, Investigation Discovery and the A&E.

In October 2006, she appeared on The Montel Williams Show to discuss women who unknowingly dated wanted criminals.^[11]

She's a regular speaker and panelist at book festivals and events, including the Texas Library Association convention, Southwest Louisiana Writer's Conference, Pulpwood Queens Girlfriend Weekend book conference, and the Texas Book Festival.^[12]

Books

True Crime

The Rapist's Wife (1995 HarperCollins)
A Warrant to Kill (2000 HarperCollins)
She Wanted It All (2005 HarperCollins)
Die, My Love (2007 HarperCollins)
A Descent into Hell (2008 HarperCollins)
Evil Beside Her (2008 HarperCollins) a reissue of The Rapist's Wife
Shattered (2010 HarperCollins)
Deadly Little Secrets (2012 HarperCollins)

Fiction series

Singularity (2008 St. Martin's Minotaur; the first in the Sarah Armstrong series)
Blood Lines (2009 St Martin's Minotaur; the second in the Sarah Armstrong series)
The Killing Storm (November 2010 St. Martin's Minotaur; the third in the Sarah Armstrong series)

References

External links

Author's official Web site
Kathryn Casey's blog
Author's Amazon.com page
truTV Crime Library citation, "Marriage, Money and Murder: Steven and Celeste Beard"
TV.com listing, "The Montel Williams Show"
Kathryn Casey at the Internet Movie Database
Texas Observer, "Writer's Block" column, "Texas prisons start barring book authors from inmate interviews," January 8, 2004
Contributor, Women in Crime Ink

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Name	Casey, Kathryn
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Short description	True crime writer, novelist and journalist
Date of birth
Place of birth	Wisconsin, United States
Date of death
Place of death

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