Crime Author Looks to Create Special Place for Writers

Los Angeles, CA — (SBWIRE) — 08/21/2013 — As an artist, finding a “happy place” or somewhere that’s inspiring can sometimes be the make or break deal that lets the inner image of the final product show through in a way that drops jaws.

Crime author Cathy Scott is looking for the funds to renovate a house in the Cuyamaca/Laguna Mountains of California to be used as a writing resort for future and current authors. She’s already halfway there and looks for the rest with this IndieGogo campaign.

“It’s been a lifelong dream to live and write in the mountains, ever since spending time, as a child, on this very mountain. Each fall, my dad drove my siblings and me to pick crates of ripened grapes and apples on the very mountains where my cabin is located”.

Cathy is the second owner of the property, which she purchased a few years ago. The original owners, after no longer using it as a miner’s cabin, converted it to a weekend bunkhouse for their children and grandchildren.

The renovation began a few years ago when she had the property cleared of years of debris, trash and discarded items inside and out, the brush cleared and trees trimmed on two occasions, per fire district requirements. She pulled permits, added a new electrical box, and had stairs built from the driveway, along with having a wrap-around deck constructed late last year.

In addition, Cathy will be hosting writers’ meetings and workshops at the cabin to encourage and develop upcoming writers. It will also be home to her rescued dogs, all special-needs, from shelters and puppy mills, and an occasional hospice or foster dog, which she takes in one at a time.

For more information, you can visit Cathy’s IndieGoGo here:http://igg.me/at/WritersRetreat

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Double Book Event: Crime Writer Cathy Scott and Former Cop Debra Gauthier

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Oct. 8, 2012

LAS VEGAS – True crime author and journalist Cathy Scott and former Las Vegas police lieutenant-turned-author Debra Gauthier have joined forces after working the same crime scenes, with Scott as a newspaper reporter and Gauthier as a police officer.

In the 1990s, Scott arrived at the scenes of crimes as a reporter while Gauthier worked the scenes as an incident commander. In July 1985, Gauthier, as part of the raid team in a covert operation investigating racketeering, was the officer tasked with cuffing and taking notorious mobster “Fat Herbie” Blitzstein into custody and to the station for booking. “We went out really early in the morning with the SWAT team,” Gauthier recalled. “It was before these guys were even awake, 4:30 or 5 in the morning. We kicked the door, went in and took these guys out on warrants.”

In January 1997, Scott was assigned to Blitzstein’s murder story and was at the scene of the crime after he was killed execution style in his Las Vegas home. “Detectives wearing black dark suits — FBI agents — were on the scene,” Scott said. “We soon learned that the feds had been investigating Herbie and his Milano Family associates in a federal racketeering case titled ‘Operation Button-down.’ Only in Vegas.”

Now, Scott and Gauthier have put their stories on paper, Scott with her latest true crime book, THE MILLIONAIRE’S WIFE, about a hit-for-hire case and Gauthier with BRIGHT LIGHTS, DARK PLACES, her autobiographical account of life as a woman pioneer on a male-dominated police force before women worked the streets.

Meet and talk with the authors at their joint book signing this Saturday, October 13, 1-3 p.m., at Barnes and Noble Summerlin, 8915 W Charleston Boulevard, Las Vegas, 702-242-1987.

Reprinted from Online PR News.

Ex-Wall Street Banker Dies In Apparent Courtroom Suicide

The image represents Maricopa County Court House, an Art Deco administrative building located in downtown Phoenix, Arizona (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Moments after hearing a “guilty” verdict convicting former Wall Street trader and banker Michael Marin of arsonfor settinghis mansion on fire, the cash-strapped defendant cupped his hands over his face and then collapsed.

He later died from what authorities have speculated may have been a deadly dose of poison in a suicide ploy to avoid prison.

After the verdict was read, the one-time high roller, age 53, turned to friends in the courtroom. As he did, he coughed. A woman handed him a tissue and Marin bent over in his seat and went into violent convulsions, a scene played out in video from the courtroom aired by Fox 10 News. Marin collapsed onto the floor.

In 2009, Marin was discovered by firefighters outside his burning mansion wearing scuba gear. He had escaped from a second-floor bedroom of the home he’d bought in the ritzy Biltmore Estates neighborhood of Phoenix, Arizona.

When boxes of flammable debris placed throughout the house were discovered, as well as evidence that Marin, a Yale graduate, had lost the small fortune he had earned and could no longer afford house payments, he was charged with arson. He faced nearly 16 years in a state prison if convicted.

“Michael Marin couldn’t pay his mortgage, so he burned down his house,” Deputy Maricopa County Attorney Chris Rapp told the jury in his opening statement in the May trial.

Fast forward to Thursday afternoon when Marin, with his attorneys, was called to the Maricopa County Superior Court to learn his fate. The video showed Marin removing a sports drink from his briefcase and drinking from it after he sat down at the defense table to hear the verdict.

“We the jury,” the foreman told the court, “duly impaneled and sworn in the above entitled action upon our oath, do find the defendant Michael James Marin guilty of arson of an occupied structure.”

With that, Marin dropped his head in his cupped hands and appeared to place something in his mouth. About 5 minutes later, he appeared to put something in his mouth again, and then he drank from the bottle.

After he collapsed into convulsions and fell into unconsciousness, paramedics were called and they took him to a local hospital, where he was later pronounced dead.

From the video, it appears Marin committed suicide. But toxicology test results by the medical examiner, which could take up to six weeks, will reveal exactly what Marin took in the Arizona courtroom that ended his life in a very public way.

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