HOT SPRINGS, ARKANSAS WELCOMED GAMBLERS AND BIG SPENDERS IN 1966 BUT DESPISED ONE OF THEIR OWN, WHO THEY SUSPECTED WAS A KILLER.

Hot Springs, Arkansas wasn’t your typical, sleepy little Southern town. Once a favorite destination of mobsters like Al Capone and Lucky Luciano, illegal activities continued to lure out-of-state gamblers, flim-flam men, and high-rollers to its thoroughbred racetrack, clubs, and bordellos. Still, the town was shaken to its core after Cathie Ward, a beautiful thirteen-year-old, was found dead at a nearby ranch & riding stables on June 24, 1966. The owner claimed it was an accident. However, when he committed murder months later, Hot Springs residents were horrified--and convinced he’d also murdered the girl. The author, a junior high school classmate of Cathie’s, returned to her hometown in 2014 to discover the truth surrounding her friend’s tragic death and the man who terrorized their town. This true story has been waiting a lifetime to be told!

Readers say: “The book is a page turner, I can’t put it down.”

Published by Prometheus Books, an imprint of Rowman & Littlefield

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“Snake Eyes is a gripping true crime tale well-told. The story of a nice young girl lost far too soon and those determined to find the truth and get it out. It happened in the author’s hometown, and mine, and played out against its culture of denial and decency, crassness and caring. There’s a lot of real life here.

Read it!”

Bill Clinton

BOOK SIGNING PHOTOS

Held May 22, 2022 in the historic Central Theatre, around the corner from Central Junior High where we attended school in 1966 with Cathie Ward, the first victim in Hot Springs' true story.

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