title: Beautiful Life?: The CSI Behind the Casey Anthony Trial & My Observations from Courtroom Seat #1
author:  Robyn Walensky 
description: Robyn Walensky is a veteran news reporter and anchor who has been covering crime, terrorism, politics, and breaking news for more than twenty years in both radio and television. She was in two terrorist attacks, and reported extensively on the World Trade Center bombing in 1993, the federal trial of the WTC 93 Plotters, and September 11th. She is co-editor/author of the book Covering CatastropheBroadcast Journalists Report 9-11-01. Walensky has a BA in journalism and political science from the George Washington University and an MA in journalism from New York University. She is a graduate of The Institute on Political Journalism at Georgetown University. She has taught Journalism courses at Tulane University in the classroom and online. Most recently, Walensky was the morning drive reporter covering the Casey Anthony Trial for WDBO Radio in Orlando, Florida, and a frequent guest on CNNs Nancy Grace Show. Walensky was the first female morning drive co-host on Rush Radio WRNO 99.5 FM in New Orleans. While at WGNO-TV in New Orleans she reported extensively on the Gulf oil spill and the run-up to the Saints winning their first Super Bowl. Walensky was a national correspondent and anchor for Fox News Radio, covering the JonBenet Ramsey case, the deaths of Anna Nicole Smith and her son in the Bahamas, the disappearance of Natalee Holloway in Aruba, OJ Simpsons arrest and trial in Las Vegas, and countless other crime and terrorism stories such as the shooting at VA Tech, and the Fort Dix 6. Earlier in her career, she also reported for AP Radio, WWOR-TV, and 1010 WINS Radio in New York. Walensky was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and went to Millburn Senior High School. Currently Walensky works for Mercury Radio Arts. She is anchor/reporter for The Blaze and can be heard daily on Glenn Becks national radio show. rwalensky@aol.com, Facebook: robyn walensky, Twitter: @robynwalensky
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  ## Contents
  
  
  [PROLOGUE](9780061738036_frontmatterpage.html#fm_2)  
  
  
  Sonja Verbrugge had no idea that this was going…
  
  
  [CHAPTER 1](9780061738036_chapter_01.html#ch_1)  
  
  
  In Downtown Manhattan, in courtroom…
  
  
  [CHAPTER 2](9780061738036_chapter_02.html#ch_2)  
  
  
  It was dawn before Diane could stop trembling.
  
  
  [CHAPTER 3](9780061738036_chapter_03.html#ch_3)  
  
  
  The Polizeikommandant, Otto Schiffer, two…
  
  
  [CHAPTER 4](9780061738036_chapter_04.html#ch_4)  
  
  
  I’m afraid I have some bad news…killed last…
  
  
  [CHAPTER 5](9780061738036_chapter_05.html#ch_5)  
  
  
  At Orly, a limousine was waiting to take them to…
  
  
  [CHAPTER 6](9780061738036_chapter_06.html#ch_6)  
  
  
  Kelly Harris was a roman candle that h