Shattered: The True Story of a Mother's Love, a Husband's Betrayal, and a Cold-Blooded Texas Murder (42 page)

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Authors: Kathryn Casey

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Acknowledgments

F
or his take on Katy High School football, Dexter Clay, author of
KatyNation
, www.katynation.com.

Jim Loosen at JAL Data services in Washington State for tracking down sources.

Carey Smith for research assistance.

My editor at Harper Collins, Will Hinton, and my agent, Jane Dystel.

For her encouragement, my mother-in-law, Ruth Casey, who passed away while I was working on this book. A great person and a wonderful artist, she’s missed.

All my readers, especially those who tell others about my books and spread the word: Thank you! You’re the best!

About the Author

KATHRYN CASEY
is a Houston-based journalist who has written for
Rolling Stone, TV Guide, Reader’s Digest, Texas Monthly
, and many other publications. She is the author of five previous true crime books. Visit her website at
www.kathryncasey.com
.

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By Kathryn Casey

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Copyright

Shattered
is a journalistic account of the actual murder investigation of David Temple for the 1999 murder of Belinda Temple in Katy, Texas. The events recounted in this book are true, although some names have been changed and identifying characteristics altered to safeguard the privacy of these individuals. The personalities, events, actions, and conversations portrayed in this book have been constructed using court documents, including trial transcripts, extensive interviews, letters, personal papers, research, and press accounts. Quoted testimony has been taken verbatim from trial and pre-trial transcripts and other sworn statements.

SHATTERED
. Copyright © 2010 by Kathryn Casey. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

First Harper paperback printing: July 2010

EPub Edition © May 2010 ISBN: 978-0-06-200026-2

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