Olsen Gregg - GOKSUnnatural Causes

From New York Times Bestselling Author

Gregg Olsen & Kevin M. Sullivan

PRAISE FOR GREGG OLSEN

Heart of Ice

Gregg Olsen will scare you and youll love every moment of it.

Lee Child

A Wicked Snow

Wickedly clever! A finely crafted, genuinely twisted tale of one mothers capacity for murder and one daughters search for the truth. Lisa Gardner

Victim Six

A rapid-fire page-turner.

The Seattle Times

PRAISE FOR KEVIN M. SULLIVAN

The Bundy Murders

"Despite the multitude of books about Bundy, The Bundy Murders offers fresh material and ideas about Bundy's predatory movements. Well researched and highly recommended, for Bundy scholars and true crime fans alike. "

Katherine Ramsland, author of The Human Predator and The Devil's Dozen

Couldn't put it down. This is crime writing at its very best!

Gary C. King, author of The Murder of Meredith Kercher and Rage

Required reading for anyone interested in serial killers in general and Ted Bundy in particular.

Burl Barer, Edgar Award winning author of The Saint: A Complete History in Print Radio Television and Film

Gregg Olsen is the New York Times bestselling author of eighteen books, true crime and fiction, including Fear Collector, A Twisted Faith, Starvation Heights, Abandoned Prayers, If Loving You Is Wrong and a dozen others. His book Envy was Washington States selection at the National Book Festival in 2012.

Kevin M. Sullivan is a writer of true crime and history. His books include: The Bundy Murders: A Comprehensive History; Vampire: The Richard Chase Murders; and two books about George Armstrong Custer, Custers Road to Disaster: The Path to Little Bighorn, and Shattering the Myth: Signposts on Custers Road to Disaster. He was a contributing writer for Snitch, the former weekly newspaper devoted to issues of crime and the law, and for the online site In Cold Blog.

Rebecca Morris is the New York Times bestselling author of Bodies of Evidence, and If I Cant Have You Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children (both with Gregg Olsen). She is also the author of Ted and Ann The Mystery of a Missing Child and Her Neighbor Ted Bundy.

UNNATURAL CAUSES

Gregg Olsen
and
Kevin M. Sullivan

Edited by
Rebecca Morris

Copyright 2014 by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris and Kevin Sullivan
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Published by Notorious USA

WELCOME TO THE LATEST INSTALLMENT IN THE New York Times bestselling series of stories about Americas most notorious criminals.

Thats right. No matter where you live, youre in the middle of Notorious USA.

Here, youll find them all

A young woman vanishes from a beach on a summer day. A newlywed disposes of his wife but doesnt know what to do with her head. Selling tickets at a drive-in movie theater proves deadly. A parents worst nightmare a young daughter disappears from a sleepover. Were shocked by most crimes, sickened over others, and laugh at a very few. Most are committed in the name of love and greed, but the bottom line is they are stupid people doing stupid things.

Weve written about some of these cases before. As time passes we learn more about criminals and about what makes them tick, about their crimes, and about their victims.

Heres our expert take on several notorious criminals and, incidentally, how theyre spending their time these days.

Most are locked up, doing time, and paying their debt to society. To do otherwise would be a crime.

Dont miss Bodies of Evidence, Notorious USAs first box set and New York Times bestselling collection about the criminals from our neck of the woods (the Pacific Northwest). Like all of our collection, Bodies of Evidence is available as an eBook on most formats, as well as in paperback and as an audio book.

Your crime scribes,

Gregg Olsen
Rebecca Morris

DEATH OF A CHEERLEADER

Gregg Olsen
and
Kevin M. Sullivan

Edited by
Rebecca Morris

Copyright 2014 by Gregg Olsen, Rebecca Morris and Kevin Sullivan
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Original Picture by ph-stop at Flickr.com
Map by Brad Arnesen
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Published by Notorious USA

Notorious
Kentucky

Where is Heather Teague?

TIM WALTHALL FOCUSED HIS HIGH-POWERED TELESCOPE and slowly panned it across the Ohio River. He and his wife, Karen, lived in a home atop the bluffs on the Indiana side of the river. With the telescope he had a front row seat to watch the deer and coyotes that lived in the woods near Newburgh Beach, a long, uneven, sandy stretch of land on the Kentucky side of the river at Henderson. There were no homes along the Kentucky shoreline at this point, only thick woodlands directly behind the beach.

It was an idyllic setting, teeming with wildlife and the occasional human activity mostly people looking for a secluded place to drink or do drugs.

For the Walthalls, the morning of Saturday, August 26, 1995, began as routinely as any other Saturday. That would change when Tim Walthall would see an unexpected event so horrible and surreal it seemed to be a scene right out of Alfred Hitchcocks classic movie, Rear Window.

The couple had spent the morning working in their front yard. At about noon they went inside for lunch. While Karen fixed hamburgers, Tim sat down behind the telescope for a quick look. As he leaned into the scope and focused the instrument, he traversed the beach across the river. At first all he saw were some kids riding their ATVs at one end of the beach. Then he spotted a young woman sunbathing. He continued to watch her not because he was a voyeur, but because he was worried. It was not a place where a woman should be alone.

Twenty-three-year-old Heather Teague was very attractive in an all-American, cheerleader kind of way. She wore her long, curly brown hair pulled back at the sides and had long bangs. She took time with her makeup, playing up her green eyes and finishing with a bright red lipstick. She was small, just barely five-feet-two-inches, and weighed about one hundred pounds. She had lived most of her life with scoliosis. The slight curve of her spine was noticeable but it didnt take anything away from her good looks.

That morning, Heather drove her car to remote Newburgh Beach. Parking along an access road shrouded by tall trees, Heather gathered up everything she would need for the day, including a beach chair, the kind that folded out to become a chaise lounge. She carried the chair, a cooler, and towels and walked the short distance through the woods to the beach. It was a beautiful Saturday and unlike other recent summer days, the beach was virtually deserted. Except for several teenage boys riding their all-terrain vehicles churning up the sand about a quarter mile upriver, Heather was completely alone.

By all accounts, Heather was a nice person. She had had her share of problems and struggles, but she was looking towards the future and the good things that might be waiting for her.