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My aunt Elaine Larson and her good friend Rosemary Mosca for their brilliant ideas

As always, a special thank you goes out to all of my family and friends. Your support means the world!

About the Author

KATHRYN CASEY
is a Houston-based journalist who has written for
Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Newsweek, Texas Monthly,
and many other publications. She is the author of four previous true crime books. Visit her website at
www.kathryncasey.com.

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Praise
for
Kathryn Casey

“Kathryn Casey is one of the best true crime writers today, and she explores incredible crimes…with a deft and experienced hand.”

ANN RULE

“With [her] sharp instincts and expert journalistic skills…Casey stakes her claim as one of the best in the business.”

M. WILLIAM PHELPS,
investigative journalist and author of
Perfect Poison

“She’s among the elite of true crime writers.”

Edgar
®
Award winner CARLTON STOWERS

“[A] vivid tale…frenetically paced.”

Houston Press
(on
Die, My Love
)

“Kathryn Casey joins Carlton Stowers as the premier chroniclers of Texas crime.”

GREGG OLSEN,
New York Times
bestselling author of
Abandoned Prayers

By Kathryn Casey

True Crime

A DESCENT INTO HELL

DIE, MY LOVE

SHE WANTED IT ALL

A WARRANT TO KILL

Coming Soon

EVIL BESIDE HER
(formerly
The Rapist’s Wife
)

Fiction

SINGULARITY

Copyright

A DESCENT INTO HELL
. Copyright © 2008 by Kathryn Casey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

EPub Edition © MAY 2008 ISBN: 9780061843563

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Epigraph

Contents

Preface

Chapter One

Chapter Two

Chapter Three

Chapter Four

Chapter Five

Chapter Six

Chapter Seven

Chapter Eight

Chapter Nine

Chapter Ten

Chapter Eleven

Chapter Twelve

Chapter Thirteen

Chapter Fourteen

Chapter Fifteen

Chapter Sixteen

Chapter Seventeen

Chapter Eighteen

Photographic Insert

Chapter Nineteen

Chapter Twenty

Chapter Twenty-One

Chapter Twenty-Two

Chapter Twenty-Three

Chapter Twenty-Four

Chapter Twenty-Five

Chapter Twenty-Six

Chapter Twenty-Seven

Chapter Twenty-Eight

Chapter Twenty-Nine

Chapter Thirty

Chapter Thirty-One

Chapter Thirty-Two

Author's Footnote

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Praise

Other Books by Kathryn Casey

Copyright

About the Publisher

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