Kathryn Casey is a true crime writer, novelist and journalist. Author Ann Rule has called Casey "one of the best in the true crime genre." Born in Wisconsin, Casey settled in Texas with her family in 1980. She attended the University of Houston, where she earned a degree in journalism. In 1984 Casey kicked off her writing career as an intern at the now-defunct Houston City Magazine. When she left two years later, she was a senior editor. Casey's next stop was a two-year interlude as editor of Ultra, a state-wide magazine geared toward wealthy Texans. In the years after Ultra, Casey branched... out to a national audience, with her articles appearing in Ladies' Home Journal, where she was a contributing editor for 18 years, as well as More , 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.
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