Cruel Heart: The True Story of a Beautiful Co-ed, a Vicious Murder, and the Trial that Tore Apart a Town - Softcover

Van Meter, William

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312373090 ISBN 13: 9780312373092

Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime, 2010

Synopsis

On the morning of May 4, 2003, a well-loved, hard-working freshman student named Katie Autry was found dead in her dormitory room at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She had been raped, stabbed, drenched in hairspray, and set on fire. The story of Katie's horrific murder made local headlines-and there was a huge public outcry to bring her killer to justice...

Stephen Soules, an unemployed high school dropout, had given Katie a ride home from a party on the night of her murder. With him was Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old, sometime drug dealer with a known history of domestic abuse. Soules claimed that Goodrum forced him to participate in the crime, and received a life sentence in a plea deal. But what really happened in Katie's dorm room that night? And which of the two accused is the real killer? Cruel Heart is the true story of a crime that sent shockwaves through a small Southern town-and the mysteries that still remain...

About this title

From the Back Cover:

AS SEEN ON NATIONAL TV

She was a small-town girl from Bluegrass country.

On the morning of May 4, 2003, a well-loved, hard-working freshman student named Katie Autry was found dead in her dormitory room at Western Kentucky University in Bowling Green. She had been raped, stabbed, drenched in hairspray, and set on fire. The story of Katie's horrific murder made local headlines―and there was a huge public outcry to bring her killer to justice...

They were older guys―with a deadly plan...
Stephen Soules, an unemployed high school dropout, had given Katie a ride home from a party on the night of her murder. With him was Lucas Goodrum, a twenty-one-year-old, sometime drug dealer with a known history of domestic abuse. Soules claimed that Goodrum forced him to participate in the crime, and received a life sentence in a plea deal. But what really happened in Katie's dorm room that night? And which of the two accused is the real killer? This is the true story of a crime that sent shockwaves through a small Southern town―and the mysteries that still remain...
"Harrowing and mesmerizing." ―William Gay, author of I Hate to See That Evening Sun Go Down

* Includes photos *

About the Author:

WILLIAM VAN METER contributes to such publications as New York magazine, Harper's Bazaar, and the New York Times. A native of Bowling Green, Kentucky, he lives in Brooklyn.

About this edition

• Publisher: St. Martin's True Crime
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0312373090
• ISBN 13: 9780312373092
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 256