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The frank and unvarnished memoir of a life spent stalking death in the Deep South.
Putnam
March 2006
304 pages
ISBN: 0399152822
Hardcover
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Baton Rouge is a little town
with big-city problems.
Rich with
Creole history, colorful locals, and a strong sense of
community, it's
also the home of Napoleonic codes, stubborn cops, and a
sometimes-troubled leadership. Baton Rouge-which literally
means "Red
Stick"-lives up to its bloody namesake.
And after
more than
ten years as a deputy coroner and then as its chief
coroner, Louis
Cataldie has seen his fair share of unusual and disturbing
cases. They
range from the bizarre to the heartbreaking: an LSU
professor killed by
a barn door; the bones of a young woman found scattered in a
churchyard; and as many as three serial killers loose at
one time under
Cataldie's watch. He has worked the scene of one of the
Malvo/ Muhammad
Beltway Sniper shootings and had a hand in bringing to
justice serial
killer Derrick Todd Lee in a controversial investigation
that was
featured in an ABC Prime Time special with Diane Sawyer and
Patricia
Cornwell.
Coroner's Journal is an
unflinching look at a world that television dramas such as
CSI can only begin to show us.
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