Kathryn Casey

This is a collection of stories pulled from the New York Times best-selling Notorious USA collection edited and curated by NYT best-selling author Gregg Olsen....

She could hear nothing but the sound of her own heartbeat. It was dark, and the rough ground scraped against her as she tried to move. Being alone was strange to her - she was so used to her big family, to the noise, the warmth, but the last thing she wanted was for the woman to return....

To his parishioners, minister Matt Baker seemed a pious and good man. To his wife, Kari, he was a devoted husband and caring father....

JUDGE. JURY. EXECUTIONER. On a cold January morning, the killer executed Assistant District Attorney Mark Hasse in broad daylight. Eight shots fired a block from the Kaufman County Courthouse. Two months later, a massacre. The day before Easter, the couple slept. Bunnies, eggs, a flower...

She didn’t notice the corn stalks shiver a few feet to her right. By the time she looked up, the man towered above her. In a single movement he wrapped one thick hand around her waist, the other he clamped over her mouth, muffling her screams....

Her pulse pounded in her ears as she scanned the house. Her eyes traveled over the porch where three empty chairs lazily rocked in the breeze, surrounded by scattered children’s toys. In the yard, there were mounds of earth. Graves. Only big enough for children....

Trophy wife Celeste Beard wasn't satisfied with a luxurious lifestyle and her rich Austin media mogul husband's devotion--so she took his life!...

In Creekstone, Texas, a small, quiet suburb of Houston, football was king and David Temple was a prince.....

At first, Linda Bergstrom's marriage to her husband James was idyllic....

Over a three-decade span, more than 20 women - many teenagers - died mysteriously in the small towns bordering Interstate 45, a 50-mile stretch of highway....

She tried to tell her friends. She even went to the police. No one would believe her—and now she was dead.

Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning....

The day before Halloween 2004 was the last day on Earth for respected, well-liked college professor Fred Jablin....

The jungle, 1949: Everyone said it was impossible, dangerous, and unwise. Three expeditions mounted by men had failed. How could one led by a woman succeed? “Don’t be a fool. You’ll die out there,” a friend whispered to Ruth. But a siren haunted her dreams, calling to her....

The officer responding to a 911 call at one of Houston's hippest high-rises expected the worst. After all, domestic violence situations can be unpredictable. But nothing could've prepared him....

Profiler Sarah Armstrong knows what it's like to be in a sticky situation....

A plumber cuts into a wall at an old house searching for the source of a leak. Instead, he uncovers a gruesome sight—a woman’s mummified body tied onto a chair. How long has she been there? Months? Years? Decades? Who is she?

A small town, East Texas love triangle ends in a brutal execution. A teenage girl guns down her loving mother. These are just two of the cases explored in this exciting anthology....

A persistent and potentially lethal stalker pursues pop mega-star Cassidy Collins, and a high-energy Houston businesswoman is found dead in her house....

Hidden in the shadows of an East Texas pine forest, a man and a woman watch worshippers file out of a church. The man lights a match, and flames erupt, climbing the thirsty clapboard walls as the pastor trapped inside pleads for divine intervention and human help that never comes....