Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
(Paperback)
Publishing Details
Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields
By (Author) Kathryn Casey
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Harper
23rd February 2015
United States
Classifications
General
Non Fiction
364.1523
Physical Properties
Paperback
368
Width 106mm, Height 171mm, Spine 23mm
177g
Description
Featured in the Netflix limited series: Crime Scene, The Texas Killing Fields!
Critically acclaimed author Kathryn Casey delivers a riveting account of the brutal murders of young women in the I-45/Texas Killing Fieldsa chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may linksuspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes
Over a three-decade span, more than twenty womenmany teenagersdied 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. Six met their demise in pairs. They had one thing in common: being in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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.
Reviews
"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
Author Bio
KATHRYN CASEY is an award-winning journalist and author, who has written for Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Readers Digest, Texas Monthly and many other publications. Shes the author of six previous true crime books and the creator of the highly acclaimed Sarah Armstrong mystery series. Casey has appeared on Oprah, Oprah Winfreys Oxygen Network, Biography, Nancy Grace, E! Network, TruTv, Investigation Discovery, the Travel Channel and A&E. Casey is based in Houston, where she lives with her husband and their dog, Nelson.
