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Catt Dahman

Catt Dahman began her professional writing career in 2013 when Severed Press acquired her nine-book series. Since then, she has written more than 100 books across true crime, horror, science fiction, mysteries, and historical fiction. Her work has appeared in multiple anthologies, and she has proposed plausible solutions in several high-profile cases, including the Dyatlov Pass incident, the deaths aboard the Terror and Erebus, and the Lindbergh kidnapping. She selectively consults on active investigations involving missing persons, suspicious deaths, thefts, and homicides.
Her books are available on Amazon.
Catt directs special-effects moulage for large-scale emergency-response simulations, including city-wide mock plane crashes. She is also a screenwriter, producer, and film director with her company, Ren Says Films, specializing in horror, sci-fi horror, and horror-comedy.
A native Texan and lifelong ice hockey fan, Catt lives with five rescue cats—Orlov, Kempny, Wilson, Dima, and Daisy—and a Great Pyrenees service dog named Bumble. She loves scuba diving, wildlife, and quiet summer evenings on the porch spent with raccoons and her husband. She holds advanced graduate training in criminal psychology from Texas A&M, with specialized work in crime-scene analysis and offender profiling.
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Serial Killers

​Explore serial killers from across the United States and around the world. These books examine infamous offenders alongside lesser-known killers whose crimes have nearly disappeared from public memory. Each case is presented through documented facts, victim histories, investigative evidence, behavioral patterns, unanswered questions, and the strange details that often lead down unexpected rabbit holes.

Reseacher's Guide

​The True Crime Researcher’s Guide explains how cases are actually examined. The series covers crime scenes, forensic evidence, searches, injuries, identification, criminal behavior, investigative procedure, and the limits of expert conclusions. Famous cases and lesser-known investigations show what evidence can establish, what it cannot prove, and how mistakes can alter the course of justice. #1 choice fo writers.
Explore the torture and murder of Sylvia Likens, Gypsy Rose Blanchard, the Mary Kay Letourneau teacher-student scandal, the murder of Brandon Teena,  Stacey Castor,  Laci Peterson, Chris Watts,  Albert Fish, t the Casey Anthony case,  Alyssa Bustamante, James Bulger, Shanda Sharer, Junko Furuta, Hello Kitty Murder Case, Richard McCroskey “Syko Sam” Horrorcore Case,Karla Homolka and Paul Bernardo — “Barbie and Ken Killers”, and others

Cases You have
never Heard of

Criminals Who were
Hunted...To Justice!
This series examines mental illness, personality disorders, brain injuries, addiction, and other psychological conditions through real criminal cases. It separates diagnosis from assumption, explains what these conditions may—and may not—contribute to criminal behavior, and never treats mental illness as an automatic cause of violence. What is behind some very controversial cases? 
 Expect a bump in the night. Many bumps. The Night Terrors series explores the darker side of horror through disturbing characters, unnatural threats, psychological fear, and the things that wait beyond ordinary understanding. Each story offers a different nightmare, where survival is uncertain and evil rarely appears in the form expected. Turn off the lights!
​Each Criminal Minds book presents a collection of criminal investigations, examining the evidence, behavior, motives, victims, and investigative decisions behind compelling cases. The series moves beyond simple retellings to explore how crimes were committed, how offenders were identified, and what investigators discovered along the way.
Adam Walsh. Polly Klaas, Elizabeth Smart, Jaycee Dugard, Shawn Hornbeck, Steven Stayner, Ben Ownby, Colleen Stan,Natascha Kampusch, and many more.
Chris Watts, John List, Christian Longo, Jeffrey MacDonald, Bradford Bishop, Ronald Gene Simmons, Lam Luong

Andrea Yates, Susan Smith, Casey Anthony, Marybeth Tinning, Genene Jones, Julie Schenecker, Michelle Blair

Mass Murders

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Stephen Paddock — Las Vegas, James Holmes — Aurora theater, Nikolas Cruz — Parkland, Omar Mateen — Pulse nightclub
  • Harold Shipman, Charles Cullen, Niels Högel Donald, Harvey, Michael Swango, Genene Jones, Kristen Gilbert
  • Beverley Allitt
  • Timothy McVeigh and Terry Nichols, Ted Kaczynski
  • Eric Rudolph, Andrew Kehoe—the Bath School disaster
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  • Seung-Hui Cho — Virginia Tech
  • Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold — Columbine
Seung-Hui Cho — Virginia Tech, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold — Columbine,  Marc Lépine — École Polytechnique
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate, John Allen Muhammad and Lee Boyd Malvo—the Beltway snipers
Andrew Cunanan, Richard Speck, the Briley brothers, Reginald and Jonathan Carr—the Wichita Massacre

Cannibal Cases

Unsolved, undersolved,
and weird

Horror Fiction

Virgil McLendon mysteries (based on true crime)

Of Blood and Water is the story of prolific serial killers operating in a small town in 1974. Based loosely on several real cases, it tells how the FBI began its BAU and "profiling" technique over twenty-five years ago. This is a deep look into a serial killer's mind, a small town. family loyalty, and a crime spree that rocked a nation. A young deputy, forced to solve the case shares his new methods of crime-solving, and they will shape the future of the entire FBI. Using new, "strange ideas", Virgil McLendon feels he is chasing ghosts as the killers kidnap young people, torture victims, leave a trail of dead campers, and seek to shock an entire town. Virgil does the first known "profile" of a suspect, and the chase is on. Everything is falling into place as he works. until the serial killers decide to go after the local law enforcement department as well. It's a battle of brains and nothing is as it seems. 

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