Deliver Us: Three Decades of Murder and Redemption in the Infamous I-45/Texas Killing Fields

Kathryn Casey

Jan 2015 · Sold by Harper Collins

About this ebook

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 Fields—a chilling true story that has already helped police uncover evidence that may link suspected serial killer William Lewis Reece to some of the heinous crimes

Over a three-decade span, more than twenty women—many teenagers—died 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.

Ratings and reviews

Kathryn Casey never disappoints. She may be the best true crime writer out there. This was not my favorite of her books but I still give it 5 out of 5 stars.

excellent read, really in depth and informative, it really makes you think about the I-45 mysteries/Killings and Kathryn Casey really brings home the horror of not just the killings but the what the families endure

This book was well written and gave me insight to things that have bothered me for many years growing up in the Galveston area. I was a teenager at the time of a few of these cases and it has stuck with me until now. It's nice to have some answers and possible suspects. This is very interesting and I appreciated all of the research and attemp at interviews to get answers.

About the author

Kathryn Casey is an award-winning journalist, who has written for Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Reader's Digest, Texas Monthly, and many other publications. She's the author of seven previous true crime books and the creator of the highly acclaimed Sarah Armstrong mystery series. Casey has appeared on Oprah, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen network, Biography, Nancy Grace, E! network, truTV, Investigation Discovery, the Travel Channel, and A&E. She lives in Houston with her husband and their dog, Nelson.