Paperback: Heather Catterton was a beautiful, beloved seventeen-year-old when her body was found in the brush by a country road in South Carolina in October 2009.
In November 2009, sweet-natured Randi Saldana’s remains were then discovered, charred and unrecognizable, in a wooded area nearby.
For all their dissimilarities, the lives of the two victims intersected in a world of drugs and exploitation, a world where the unrepentant serial killer, Danny Hembree, preyed on vulnerable women.
In The Killing Kind (2014), bestselling investigative journalist M. William Phelps delves into the lives of Danny Hembree’s victims and reconstructs the twisting path from his horrifying crimes to his high-profile trial and conviction. Additionally drawing on interviews with the killer himself, Phelps chillingly brings readers into the mind of a murderer.
In the latest from this heinous crime, The North Carolina Supreme Court ruled that Danny Hembree did not receive a fair trial in 2011, when he was found guilty and sentenced to death for the murder of 17-year-old Heather Catterton. The court said prosecutors relied too heavily on evidence from Saldana's murder when arguing the Catterton case. Hembree also pleaded guilty to killing another woman, 30-year-old Randi Saldana, and was sentenced to an additional 26 years in prison. The court's decision does not affect the Saldana case. Even though Hembree has been granted a new trial in the Catterton case, he remains in prison serving his sentence in the Saldana case. Gaston County District Attorney Locke Bell said it could take two years for Hembree to be retried because he will have to hire new attorneys to represent him. (Time Warner Cable News, 11 April 2015)
About the author: Crime, murder and serial killer expert, creator/producer/writer and former host of the Investigation Discovery series Dark Minds, acclaimed, award-winning investigative journalist M William Phelps is the New York Times best-selling author of thirty books and winner of the 2013 Excellence in (Investigative) Journalism Award and the 2008 New England Book Festival Award.
A highly sought-after pundit, Phelps has made over 100 media-related television appearances: Early Show, The Today Show, The View, Fox & Friends, truTV, Discovery Channel, Fox News Channel, Good Morning America, TLC, BIO, History, Oxygen, OWN, on top of over 100 additional media appearances: USA Radio Network, Catholic Radio, Mancow, Wall Street Journal Radio, Zac Daniel, Ave Maria Radio, Catholic Channel, EWTN Radio, ABC News Radio, and many more.
Phelps is one of the regular and recurring experts frequently appearing on two long-running series, Deadly Women and Snapped. Radio America calls Phelps “the nation’s leading authority on the mind of the female murderer,” and TV Rage says, “M. William Phelps dares to tread where few others will: into the mind of a killer.” A respected journalist, beyond his book writing Phelps has written for numerous publications - including the Providence Journal, Connecticut Magazine and Hartford Courant - and consulted on the first season of the hit Showtime cable television series Dexter.
Phelps grew up in East Hartford, CT, moved to Vernon, CT, at age 12, where he lived for 25 years. He now lives in a reclusive Connecticut farming community north of Hartford.
Beyond crime, Phelps has also written several history books, including the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling Nathan Hale: The Life and Death of America’s First Spy, The Devil's Rooming House, The Devil's Right Hand, Murder, New England, and more.
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