The Killing of Tupac Shakur, Biggie Smalls, and more January 10th
TRUE CRIMES returns LIVE Saturday, January 10th with special guest Cathy Scott! Listen 2pm PST by clicking this link!
Cathy Scott, a graduate of the University of
Redlands, is an author and award-winning journalist who's received more
than a dozen awards from news organizations in California and Nevada.
Currently she is a staff writer for Best Friends Animal Society’s magazine
and Web sites.
She is the author of the Los Angeles Times'
best-seller The Killing of Tupac Shakur, as well as The Murder of Biggie Smalls, Death
in the Desert: The Ted Binion Homicide Case, and Seraphim Rose: The True
Story and Private Letters. Her latest true-crime book is Death of a Mafia
Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman.
Scott is a member of the Authors Guild and the Society
of Professional Journalists' national Speakers Bureau. She also serves as
the Nevada chairwoman of the Society of Professional Journalist’s Sunshine
Committee which works to keep government records open to the public.
She’s also a freelance reporter and stringer for The
New York Times and Reuters news service. Her work has appeared in George
magazine, The Christian Science Monitor, Los Angeles Times, New York Post,
New York Times Magazine, The San Diego Union-Tribune, Las Vegas Sun, AmericaOnline and APBNews.com. Until she went to New Orleans to cover the
largest natural disaster in history, she taught journalism at the
University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She left that position to report on the
rescue of animals for Best Friends.
She has appeared on Unsolved Mysteries, CourtTV, CNN,
BET, VH1, MTV, Uncovered TV, CBS 2’s Morning Show, Talk Books, National
Public Radio, and "Backstage Live" with Gary and Connie."
Her work has taken her to Somalia, Saudi
Arabia and Panama. A native San Diegan, she has one son and
two grandchildren She lives in Las Vegas.
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