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Butterfly: The Katie Collman File  
Dec. 19, 2009
Author:  Harold J. Adams
Category:  Non-fiction: True crime
Description:  Butterfly: The Katie Collman File, is an account of the January 2005 rape and murder of a 10-year-old girl in the small town of Crothersville, Indiana based on more than 7,000 pages of FBI documents and dozens of interviews.

It chronicles the frantic five-day search for Katie after she disappeared while on an after-school errand to a store less than three blocks from home, the arrest of the wrong man based on a false confession obtained by the FBI relying on a made-up tale of methamphetamine addicts who wanted to silence Katie after she saw them cooking the drug, the months of investigation as the confession unraveled, and the lucky break that led to a CSI-style finding of the real killer.

Rights available:  All
Other information:  The disappearance of Katie Collman drew national attention, including front-page coverage in The New York Times, and received saturation news coverage in Indianapolis, Indiana, in Cincinnati, Ohio and in Louisville, Kentucky for more than a year. Butterfly is the debut effort of reporter Harold J. Adams who covered the unfolding story from start to finish writing in The Courier-Journal newspaper of Louisville.
Contact:  Harold J Adams
hja01@insightbb.com
phone: (502) 419-7843
P.O. Box 21787, Louisville, KY 40221
Item number:  6743
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