MARK GADO was a police detective in New York for over twenty-five years. His investigative work included murder, death cases, felony assaults, and sexual offenses, as well as hundreds of appearances in a courtroom setting. He was a federal agent with the D.E.A. from 1999-2001 and currently writes on criminal justice issues and true crime for Court TV's Crime Library. He is the author of Killer Priest (Praeger, 2006) and a contributor to Famous American Crimes and Trials (Praeger, 2005).