Author: Louis Cataldie
Publisher: PENGUIN/PUTNAM (PENGUIN ACCT), Nov 2007
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 0-425-21355-2
Synopsis
Cataldie's maverick ways have made him a favorite target of the media, but he offers no apologies, & speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves. Graphic & frank, this is his unique, up-close look at his life spent stalking death in the Deep South. Foreword by Patricia Cornwell. 9x6 inches; 352 pgs.
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Foreword by Patricia Cornwell.
During Hurricane Katrina, Dr. Louis Cataldie remained in New Orleans in dangerous & often unbearable conditions to attend to the sick, the injured-& the dead. As chief coroner of Baton Rouge, tending to the dead is Cataldie's job. A little town with big-city problems, Baton Rouge means "Red Stick"-& lives up to its bloody name. Cataldie has faced unusual & disturbing cases, from tracking three serial killers on the loose simultaneously while working the scene of a Malvo/ Muhammad Beltway Sniper shooting, to helping apprehend Baton Rouge serial killer Derrick Todd Lee in a controversial case that was featured in an ABC Primetime Live special with Diane Sawyer & Patricia Cornwell.
Cataldie's maverick ways have made him a favorite target of the media, but he offers no apologies, & speaks for those who cannot speak for themselves. Graphic & frank, this is his unique, up-close look at his life spent stalking death in the Deep South.