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Cathy Scott is a true crime author and investigative journalist, born and raised in San Diego, California.

Scott, a graduate of the University of Redlands, is a Las Vegas-based journalist and author best known for penning the biographies and true crime books The Killing of Tupac Shakur (Huntington Press, ISBN 0-929-71220-X) and The Murder of Biggie Smalls (St. Martin's Press, ISBN 0-312-26620-0), both bestsellers in the U.S. and U.K.[1][2] The books are based on the drive-by shootings that killed the rappers six months apart in the midst of what has been called a West Coast-East Coast rap war (see East Coast-West Coast hip hop rivalry). Scott's hip hop books are each dedicated to the rappers' mothers. In 2005, an article first published in George (magazine), was released in the 2005 book Tupac: A Thug's Life, a compilation of national magazine writers.

Her latest book, Fat Herbie and the Hole in the Wall Gang: The Rise and Fall of a Vegas Mobster, is a biography of Chicago mobster Herbert Blitzstein.

Scott taught journalism and advanced magazine writing at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas's School of Journalism until September 2005 when she traveled to New Orleans as an embedded reporter for Best Friends Animal Society's to cover animal rescues in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina for its magazine and Web site. When she returned two months later, she hired on with Best Friends as a staff writer.[3] Her work has appeared in The New York Times, New York Post, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, San Diego Union-Tribune and Las Vegas Sun.

She is the daughter of author Eileen Rose Busby and James (Jim) Scott, an author, Senior Olympics winner and one of the pioneering originators of the game of racquetball, granddaughter of artist Esther Rose, sister of scientist J. Michael Scott, and niece of author and hieromonk Father Seraphim Rose.

• The Killing of Tupac Shakur (1997, 2002) (ISBN 0-92971220X)
• The Murder of Biggie Smalls (2000) (ISBN 0312266200)
• Death in the Desert: The Ted Binion Homicide Case (2000) (ISBN 1588205320)
• Seraphim Rose: The True Story and Private Letters (2000) (ISBN 1928653014
• Murder of a Mafia Daughter: The Life and Tragic Death of Susan Berman (2002) (ISBN 1569802386)

• Official homepage
• Official Blog
• Writer's Digest, Oct. 2002
• Alma mater Helix High School

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