Casey Sherman
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Casey Sherman is an award winning journalist and the best-seller author of The Finest Hours and four other books including Bad Blood (due out in October 2009). 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 chronicled the re-investigation in his 2003 acclaimed true-crime thriller, A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler .
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.

Blog Entries by Casey Sherman

Welcome to the Jungle, Tiger!

Posted February 19, 2010 | 18:31:24 (EST)

Let me get this straight - Tiger Woods says he understands the role the media plays but then blasts the media for doing its job?
The disgraced golf superstar took a few awkward moments during his recent act of public contrition to hammer some reporters for stalking his wife...

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She Who Must Not Be Named

Posted January 21, 2010 | 15:24:53 (EST)

As we continue to sift through the ashes of Republican Scott Brown's phoenix-like win in Tuesday's special election to succeed Ted Kennedy as Senator of Massachusetts, at least one thing is for sure -- failed Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, has become the Lord Voldemort of the Democratic Party. Her stunning...

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Martha Coakley: Democrat Doomed from the Start

Posted January 19, 2010 | 11:29:00 (EST)

She's Irish, she's a woman and she's a democract. In a left leaning state like Massachusetts, what's not to love about Martha Coakley? Everything it seems.

Voters in Massachusetts are finally getting to know Coakley en masse thanks to her now disastrous campaign to succeed the late liberal lion Ted...

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If Victory Isn't the Goal in Afghanistan -- Why are We There?

Posted July 25, 2009 | 18:03:14 (EST)

Lost amid the overblown controversy surrounding the arrest of a Harvard professor this week were the words that could eventually define the Obama presidency. During an interview with ABC News, the President said that 'victory' was not necessarily the goal of the United States in Afghanistan.

I wonder what...

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The Tweet Is Mightier Than the Sword! But Will Alice Hoffman's On-Line Rant Cut Into her Sales?

Posted July 1, 2009 | 16:42:00 (EST)

Bestselling novelist Alice Hoffman has ventured off into an electronic exile where she will spend the next three months in "a place with no Internet" -- this according to her latest posting on Facebook. Hoffman's message to her friends and fans is starkly different and much softer than the words...

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Don't Cry For Him Argentina. Governor Sanford Had The Right Idea!

Posted June 24, 2009 | 13:33:35 (EST)

So it now appears that Governor Mark Sanford, (R) South Carolina was dancing the tango in Argentina for five days while his family, staff and his constituents had no idea of his whereabouts.

Yes, Governor Sanford was living the dream. We'd all like to just get away for a few...

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Obama 'Unjust' in his Iranian Response

Posted June 23, 2009 | 07:55:15 (EST)

French President Nicolas Sarkozy calls it "a tragedy." German Chancellor Angela Merkel demands that Iran's government "stop the use of violence against demonstrators." Around the world, outrage is being echoed over the bloody crackdown of protesters following the rigged presidential election that kept Mahmoud Ahmadinejad in a seat of...

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Will Obama Find His Inner Kennedy?

Posted June 18, 2009 | 12:55:53 (EST)

"Too intelligent and too weak," Russian Premier Nikita Khrushchev said of newly minted U.S. President John F. Kennedy after their meeting in Vienna, Austria in June 1961. This observation became a catalyst for Khrushchev's decision a year later to deploy nuclear weapons to Cuba triggering the historic showdown between the...

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Forever Four -- A Tiny Life Taken By An Elderly Driver

Posted June 17, 2009 | 17:08:33 (EST)

She will never feel the pride of losing her first tooth. She'll never feel the joy of learning to ride a bike or the thrill of her first school dance. Diya Patel will forever be just 4 years-old. She'll be wearing pink and singing her favorite songs in front of...

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Justice Rises From the Rubble in Northern Ireland

Posted June 10, 2009 | 11:05:53 (EST)

"Until today you felt they were laughing at you," Kathy Gallagher says of the men accused in the worst terrorist attack in the history of Northern Ireland. The killers are laughing no more. This week, a judge in Belfast found the terror group - the Real IRA and four of...

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The Pathologist and The Grasshopper

Posted June 9, 2009 | 15:59:11 (EST)

The family of David Carradine is reaching out to the Master Po of the forensic science community in hopes of finding answers to the Kung Fu star's disgraced mortal exit. Famed pathologist Dr. Michael Baden will perform a second autopsy to determine whether the 72 year-old actor died from auto-erotic...

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