A Descent Into Hell by Kathryn Casey

A Descent Into Hell by Kathryn Casey

Bright, attractive, and both from good families, University of Texas college student Colton Pitonyak and vibrant redhead Jennifer Cave had the world at their beckoning. Cave, an ex-cheerleader, had just landed an exciting new job, while a big-money scholarship to UT's prestigious business school lured Pitonyak to Austin. Yet the former altar boy had a dark, unpredictable streak, one that ensnared him in the perilous underworld of drugs and guns. When Jennifer failed to show up for work on August 18, 2005, her mother became frightened. Sharon Cave's search led to Colton's West Campus apartment, where Jennifer's family discovered a scene worthy of the grisliest horror movie. Meanwhile, Colton Pitonyak was nowhere to be found.

A Descent Into Hell is the gripping true story of one of the most brutal slayings in UT history--and the wild "Bonnie and Clyde-like" flight from justice of a cold-blooded young killer and his would-be girlfriend, who claimed that her unquestioning allegiance to Pitonyak was "just the way I roll."

Kathryn Casey is the originator of the Sarah Armstrong mystery series and the author of eleven critically acclaimed real crime books. She is a novelist and an award-winning journalist. SINGULARITY, her first novel, was named one of Booklist's greatest crime novel debuts of 2009, and THE KILLING STORM, her third, was named one of Library Journal's best mysteries of 2010. She has appeared on 20/20, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey's Oxygen Network, Court TV, Biography, Nancy Grace, and E! She is a frequent television and radio contributor.