Author: Casey Sherman
Born: January 19, 1969
Bio: Casey Sherman made international headlines with his re-investigation of the notorious Boston Strangler case in 1999. it was a personal crusade for the veteran jounalist. Sherman is the nephew of 19-year old Mary Sullivan, believed to be the last victim of the Boston Strangler. Through Sherman's re-investigation, he was able to prove that self-confessed killer Albert DeSalvo did not murder his aunt on January 4, 1964. Sherman was able to prove this by uncovering DeSalvo's long-lost confession tape and comparing it to the autopsy report in Mary Sullivan's murder. There were stark inaccuracies in the DeSalvo confession. Sherman also elicited the aid of an all-star forensic team led by George Washington University professor James Starrs to exhume Sullivan's remains for DNA testing. Starrs'team was able to find trace evidence of the killer on Sullivan's body and that DNA evidence did not match Albert DeSalvo. Sherman chronicled the re-investigation in his 2003 acclaimed true-crime thriller, A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler (Northeastern University Press). The book was later released in paperback under a new title: Search for the Strangler (Warner Books 2005) Sherman's second book, Black Irish was released in 2007 and reached #5 on Amazon's list of hottest selling new releases. Black Irish is a novel about two brothers torn apart by sectarian violence in Northern Ireland during the Hunger Strikes of 1981. One brother is on a journey for justice. He becomes a cop. The other is on a journey for revenge. He becomes the IRA's most feared assassin. The story puts both men on a collision course where only one will make it out alive. Sherman's sequel Black Dragon was released to rave reviews in July 2008. He has also completed The Finest Hours (Scribner 2009)with co-author Michael Tougias. The Finest Hours is the true story of a dramatic Coast Guard rescue off Cape Cod in 1952. Sherman has just begun work on another true-crime project, Bad Blood: Freedom and Death in the White Mountains about the deadly police shooting in Franconia, New Hampshire involving Franconia police corporal Bruce McKay & Liko Kenney (cousin of ski star Bode Miller) in May 2007. Sherman is also a contributing writer for Boston Magazine & Boston Common Magazine. His 2006 article, Facing the Facts was profiled in USA Today as the first to expose flaws in Sebastian Junger's 2006 book, A Death in Belmont. Television Appearances the Today Show Dateline NBC NBC Unsolved Mysteries The CBS Early Show CBS 48 HOURS Mystery The CBS Evening News The View America's Most Wanted ABC World News Tonight Anderson Cooper 360 CNN The History Channel The Discovery Channel The Travel Channel National Geographic Channel