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by Katie Beers (Author), Carolyn Gusoff (Contribution by)
In 1992, at just nine-years-old, Katie Beers was kidnapped by a family friend and locked in a box underground for 17 days. Now, she has come forward to tell the story that created a national media storm as reporters uncovered the truth about her pre-kidnapping life of neglect and sexual abuse and the details of her rescue.
After the death of her kidnapper, John Esposito, Katie is ready to reveal her inspiring healing process and how this horrifying experience has affected her life. Buried Memories is the only source that covers in complete detail Katie's traumatic childhood, the transcriptions of Esposito's recordings, and Katie's first-hand account of how she felt after her kidnapper's death. Despite the horrible reality of Katie's days of being chained in darkness, the kidnapping was, in fact, the climactic end of a tragic childhood and the beginning of a new life.Author Biography
Carolyn Gusoff is an Emmy award-winning broadcast journalist currently working the Long Island beat for WCBS-TV. She has covered some of the most high profile news stories in New York City. Prior to WCBS, she reported live daily for Good Day New York, Fox5 WNYW for 3 years, and was Long Island Bureau Chief at WNBC for 15 years, also co-anchoring Weekend Today in New York. A graduate of Columbia University and Cornell, she was born in NYC and lives on Long Island with her husband and two children.
Katie Beers is a married mother of two and currently works as a motivational speaker as well as in a family-run insurance business. As a profoundly neglected and abused child, she was kidnapped and locked in an underground coffin-like box for 17 days. The kidnapping of Katie Beers made worldwide headlines in late 1992. Katie, at the center of a national media storm, dropped out of sight 20 years ago. Katie has a bachelor's degree in accounting and lives in rural Pennsylvania with her husband and their two children.
