Catherine Townsend

Catherine is a writer and licensed private investigator whose work has appeared in publications including The Atlantic, Elle, New York, GQ, Marie Claire, Cosmopolitan, the Daily Mail, the New York Post, Cosmopolitan and The Huffington Post.

Currently, she is the writer and host of the Hell And Gone podcast, which investigates the cold case murder of Rebekah Gould in the Arkansas Ozarks.

She is also a writer and correspondent for Investigation Discovery’s CrimeFeed website.

After beginning her career as a staff writer for New York magazine, Catherine moved to London to create The Independent’s very popular “Sleeping Around” dating column.

While in the UK she interviewed everyone from the Prime Minster to a Playboy bunny, and wrote bestselling books Sleeping Around and Breaking the Rules (John Murray/Hodder). Catherine has also conceptualized and produced numerous TV and web projects.

But her greatest passion has always been solving mysteries. So in 2010 she channeled her inner Nancy Drew and signed up for detective school, where she was immediately thrown into the field with former FBI agents, police officers and other PIs. Over the next three years Catherine completed well over the 6000 hours required to become a licensed private investigator in California.