Education
Scott attended Diablo Valley College.
Scott attended Diablo Valley College.
In the late 1990s, after reading newspaper accounts about a series of local murders, Scott, a delivery company driver at the time, began researching and writing a book about a couple, James Daveggio and Michelle Michaud, who committed murders in the county in which Scott lived. In 2001, Kensington, as a Pinnacle imprint, released his book about the couple"s murderous crime spree, titled Rope Burns. In November 2012, Scott appeared on an Investigation Discovery episode of "Deadly Women" about the case.
His 16th book, Shattered Innocence, about kidnap victim Jaycee Dugard, made the New York Times Best Seller list in paperback nonfiction the week of October 2, 2011.
TruTV"s "Crime Library" recounted Scott"s book Like Father Like Son about the 2000 murder of 9-year-old Krystal Steadman. He contributed chapters for two anthologies, Masters of True Crime, released in 2012 by Prometheus, and Murder Past, Murder Present, released in 2009 by Twilight Times.
He also appeared in the 2010 documentary Too Young to Kill: 15 Shocking Crimes to talk about 14-year-old Cody Posey and the murder of Posey"s father. Scott died at his home in Northern California on January 9, 2015.