Catherine Pelonero

Catherine Pelonero born Edna Catherine Pelonero November 7 1967 December 19 2024 was an American playwright and a New York Times bestselling true crime author She was born in Alexandria Virginia she was raised in Buffalo where she would become an awardwinning playwright Her comedy Modern Maturity was produced at Alleyway Theatre and won the 1992 Artvoice Award for Outstanding New Play She published several short plays including Family Names which won the OffOff Broadway Short Play Festival In 2007 she became a playwright member of the Actors Studio Some of her plays were developed in the Studios west coast Playwrights Directors Unit Her absurdist comedy Another Effing Family Drama premiered at the Hollywood Fringe Festival in 2011 and was chosen for Best of the Fringe She was the author of two bestselling true crime books Kitty Genovese the definitive study of the famous 1963 murder and Absolute Madness which told the story of the 22 Caliber Killer who terrorized Buffalo in the early 1980s She wrote several subsequent articles about the Kitty Genovese case and her extensive interviews with murderer Winston Moseley At Investigation Discoverys CrimeFeed she became a contributing writer She also appeared in a number of true crime television programs and films including A Crime to Remember Fox Files The Witness Murderous Affairs and It Takes a Killer Some info from Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Other info from her online obituary