The current book Kathleen is working on is
'Dream House'
'Dream House' will be an account of the Kouri Richins case currently being played out in Park City, Utah, where Kouri is accused of the March 2022 murder of her husband, Eric Richins, scion of one of the families that built this elegant ski resort, where Gwynneth Paltrow recently defended herself in relation to a skiing accident in the same courtroom as Kouri appeared for her bond hearing in June 2023.
Kouri's bail application was denied.
It is likely that Kathleen will approach this case in the same way as she did the Murdaugh case - in two volumes, the first to be published before the trial and the other shortly after the jury verdict is announced.
Thereafter, Kathleen will move on to 'Lost and All Alone,' examining the Gabby Petito case, which is scheduled to drop during early summer of 2024.
Almost every True Crime fan knows this case, so you can anticipate beauty, and innocence, and hope, and awesome scenery, and violence, and murder, and a cover up that involves those legendary AGs (ancient gangsters), the alligators.
Oh, and there will be a bombshell as well, but not many jokes.
In the meantime, Kathleen has released an updated version of her best-selling fictional novel, 'The Wedding Gift,' which actually isn't that fictional. It was based on a murder in Alaska, and even the scene where a dismembered body falls out of a casket and rolls around the room really happened in front of Kathleen's very eyes - albeit in Las Vegas, this time.
The updated version, now called 'The Willets House,' was published in August 2023 and is being considered for a movie.
Kouri's bail application was denied.
It is likely that Kathleen will approach this case in the same way as she did the Murdaugh case - in two volumes, the first to be published before the trial and the other shortly after the jury verdict is announced.
Thereafter, Kathleen will move on to 'Lost and All Alone,' examining the Gabby Petito case, which is scheduled to drop during early summer of 2024.
Almost every True Crime fan knows this case, so you can anticipate beauty, and innocence, and hope, and awesome scenery, and violence, and murder, and a cover up that involves those legendary AGs (ancient gangsters), the alligators.
Oh, and there will be a bombshell as well, but not many jokes.
In the meantime, Kathleen has released an updated version of her best-selling fictional novel, 'The Wedding Gift,' which actually isn't that fictional. It was based on a murder in Alaska, and even the scene where a dismembered body falls out of a casket and rolls around the room really happened in front of Kathleen's very eyes - albeit in Las Vegas, this time.
The updated version, now called 'The Willets House,' was published in August 2023 and is being considered for a movie.
Teenaged Leeann Worthier, the prettiest girl in her home town of Dalton, Oklahoma, dates George Willets, heir to an oil fortune, and becomes pregnant.
The love of her life, Donny Readle, has just up and married somebody else, so, although she does not love George, after some hesitation she agrees to marry him. After all, he is very nice to her, and generous, too, showering her with jewelry and allowing her to use his bottomless credit card to buy expensive clothes for her and her feisty best friend, Jessie Sands, another local beauty, not least because he likes looking at them.
As a wedding gift to George and Leeann, George’s father hands over the historic Willets family house for them to live in. It is a stunning, if much-feared, mansion where, in a previous generation, the beautiful young wife of the then-heir to the Willets fortune gruesomely murdered her handsome playboy husband and all of their children, before killing herself. It is also a house where Leeann’s oldest brother suffered an unexplained violent death while trespassing on its grounds.
Naturally, Leeann strongly resists living there, but she is given no choice, only for her to discover that her worst fears of the supernatural are about to be realized in this Willets horror mansion.
'The Willets House' on Kindle - click here
'The Willets House' in paperback - click here
The love of her life, Donny Readle, has just up and married somebody else, so, although she does not love George, after some hesitation she agrees to marry him. After all, he is very nice to her, and generous, too, showering her with jewelry and allowing her to use his bottomless credit card to buy expensive clothes for her and her feisty best friend, Jessie Sands, another local beauty, not least because he likes looking at them.
As a wedding gift to George and Leeann, George’s father hands over the historic Willets family house for them to live in. It is a stunning, if much-feared, mansion where, in a previous generation, the beautiful young wife of the then-heir to the Willets fortune gruesomely murdered her handsome playboy husband and all of their children, before killing herself. It is also a house where Leeann’s oldest brother suffered an unexplained violent death while trespassing on its grounds.
Naturally, Leeann strongly resists living there, but she is given no choice, only for her to discover that her worst fears of the supernatural are about to be realized in this Willets horror mansion.
'The Willets House' on Kindle - click here
'The Willets House' in paperback - click here
Yet more from Murdaugh ...
'Murdaugh, She Wrote' updated after trial end ...
Kathleen's book 'Murdaugh, She Wrote' was published before the 2023 trial of Alex Murdaugh for the murder of his wife, Maggie, and son, Paul, because she had already discovered, via insider sources, most of what had happened that rainy night of Monday, June 7, 2021, on the Murdaugh Moselle estate in South Carolina.
But while the original version of the book covers most of the ground that has emerged during the trial itself (phew!), a substantial amount of extra detail, or 'color,' has become available (such as the verbatim police interviews and the OnStar data from Alex's car, and thus a complete timeline for the fatal events) over the last few weeks ... And then there has been the riveting spectacle of Alex Murdaugh himself being cross-examined after he made the astonishing decision to take the stand in person - a high-wire act without a safety net if ever there was one.
Now the post-trial addition to the book is available on Amazon - and it has turned out to be rather longer than the original book, but that is a six-week trial for you!
'Murdaugh, She Wrote: After the Trial' on Kindle - click here
'Murdaugh, She Wrote: After the Trial' in paperback - click here
But while the original version of the book covers most of the ground that has emerged during the trial itself (phew!), a substantial amount of extra detail, or 'color,' has become available (such as the verbatim police interviews and the OnStar data from Alex's car, and thus a complete timeline for the fatal events) over the last few weeks ... And then there has been the riveting spectacle of Alex Murdaugh himself being cross-examined after he made the astonishing decision to take the stand in person - a high-wire act without a safety net if ever there was one.
Now the post-trial addition to the book is available on Amazon - and it has turned out to be rather longer than the original book, but that is a six-week trial for you!
'Murdaugh, She Wrote: After the Trial' on Kindle - click here
'Murdaugh, She Wrote: After the Trial' in paperback - click here
This is a story of murder and money and power gone wrong.
In June of 2021, following two brutal homicides in a prominent family, the rest of the world learned what people in a small Southern town called Hampton had long known …
… Anything is possible if your last name is Murdaugh.
‘Murdaugh, She Wrote’ is a Southern gothic tale of one family and the people who served them. It’s an account, or better to say an accounting, of five murders that took place in a tiny area of the Lowcountry, South Carolina, and which left a long blood trail that led always back to one family.
There are patriarchs, and a mad young man, and victims aplenty. Some are dead, some are ruined for life, but them’s the breaks in the Kingdom of Murdaugh,
Come on down, there are tales to be told.
Buy the Kindle version - here
Buy the paperback version - here
In June of 2021, following two brutal homicides in a prominent family, the rest of the world learned what people in a small Southern town called Hampton had long known …
… Anything is possible if your last name is Murdaugh.
‘Murdaugh, She Wrote’ is a Southern gothic tale of one family and the people who served them. It’s an account, or better to say an accounting, of five murders that took place in a tiny area of the Lowcountry, South Carolina, and which left a long blood trail that led always back to one family.
There are patriarchs, and a mad young man, and victims aplenty. Some are dead, some are ruined for life, but them’s the breaks in the Kingdom of Murdaugh,
Come on down, there are tales to be told.
Buy the Kindle version - here
Buy the paperback version - here
In August of 2018, in a wealthy Denver suburb, a shocked and horrified nation learned that Christopher Lee Watts had murdered his pregnant wife, their two little girls and their unborn son.
But shock was soon replaced by puzzlement. Why?
And the surprising answer is that a standard Anadarko Petroleum employee policy led, unintentionally of course, to the murders.
By early 2018, the Watts family finances were beyond dire again after a recent shattering bankruptcy, then Chris Watts’ employer, Anardarko Petroleum, offered him a life insurance policy on the lives of his wife, Shan’ann, and his very young daughters, Bella and CeCe, for a total of $450,000.
Wouldn’t that get him out of a spot?
After that, Shan’ann’s days were numbered, preferably via a perceived oxycontin overdose.
Well, Chris Watts tried that twice and failed. Then he decided to go for the jackpot. Shan’ann would ‘murder’ the girls, and would then disappear. Nobody was going to find her body in the Cervi 19 oil storage tanks. He would collect on the girls immediately and then get the rest when Shan’ann was legally declared dead.
It was an excellent plan, to be carried out by a complete moron.
On the night of Sunday August 12, 2018, two things went catastrophically wrong, leaving Chris Watts to dispose of three bodies, not one, and facing a nail-biting time crunch.
Then a friend of Shan’ann’s called in the cops on the morning of Monday August 13, and it was game over.
But, for some, that’s when the party started.
Also featured in the book will be American lawyer superstar Anne Bremner, who, after thirty years in private practice, has never lost a case as lead counsel, and, as an international awarding-winning super lawyer, is a regular commentator on True Crime TV shows. Anne's role will be to point out how ol' Pennywise could potentially challenge his own confessions in an appeal to overthrow his plea deal, anticipating what Chris Watts' own lawyers will be arguing later in the year. That Chris Watts may still bound free is a sobering, but all-too-possible, thought.
Buy the Kindle version - here
Buy the paperback - here
But shock was soon replaced by puzzlement. Why?
And the surprising answer is that a standard Anadarko Petroleum employee policy led, unintentionally of course, to the murders.
By early 2018, the Watts family finances were beyond dire again after a recent shattering bankruptcy, then Chris Watts’ employer, Anardarko Petroleum, offered him a life insurance policy on the lives of his wife, Shan’ann, and his very young daughters, Bella and CeCe, for a total of $450,000.
Wouldn’t that get him out of a spot?
After that, Shan’ann’s days were numbered, preferably via a perceived oxycontin overdose.
Well, Chris Watts tried that twice and failed. Then he decided to go for the jackpot. Shan’ann would ‘murder’ the girls, and would then disappear. Nobody was going to find her body in the Cervi 19 oil storage tanks. He would collect on the girls immediately and then get the rest when Shan’ann was legally declared dead.
It was an excellent plan, to be carried out by a complete moron.
On the night of Sunday August 12, 2018, two things went catastrophically wrong, leaving Chris Watts to dispose of three bodies, not one, and facing a nail-biting time crunch.
Then a friend of Shan’ann’s called in the cops on the morning of Monday August 13, and it was game over.
But, for some, that’s when the party started.
Also featured in the book will be American lawyer superstar Anne Bremner, who, after thirty years in private practice, has never lost a case as lead counsel, and, as an international awarding-winning super lawyer, is a regular commentator on True Crime TV shows. Anne's role will be to point out how ol' Pennywise could potentially challenge his own confessions in an appeal to overthrow his plea deal, anticipating what Chris Watts' own lawyers will be arguing later in the year. That Chris Watts may still bound free is a sobering, but all-too-possible, thought.
Buy the Kindle version - here
Buy the paperback - here
Anne Bremner and Kathleen McKenna Hewtson
