Looking for Catherine: Memoirs of A House That Spoke

About the Book

Charlene Zornes Perry, author of three volumes of Haunted Henry County folklore, passed away April 30, 2013, while researching a fourth book. Haunted Henry County IV, ghostwritten by Perry's daughter, Lisa Perry Martin, is Perry's true legacy. Always fascinated by the mysterious 1913 disappearance of Catherine Winters from New Castle, Indiana, Perry devoted more than three decades to searching for clues about what happened to the little lost girl. Did the 9-year-old run away with her favorite aunt? Was she kidnapped for ransom by a limping degenerate? ...or was she murdered, her body hidden so well that it took a hundred years and the tenacity of a justice-driven retired nurse to find her? Entwined through the pages of Perry's final goodbye lies the answer.

About the Author

Charlene Zornes Perry, born in 1937 in the Henry County Jail, the daughter of Sheriff Charles Zornes, authored three popular volumes of Indiana folklore entitled Haunted Henry County. Perry thoroughly researched a fourth book prior to her April 30, 2013 death. The retired psychiatric nurse and massage therapist left the research in her apartment, where they were found after her May 4 funeral. Lisa Perry Martin, also a New Castle native and former Ohio newspaper reporter, drew a Crayola "newspaper" for her mother when she was in second grade with "Catherine Winters Found" as the headline. Now pursuing a history career as a guest interpreter at Conner Prairie Interactive History Park in Indianapolis, Martin and her husband, David, (a scientist at Wright Patterson Air Force Base,) raised seven children and have four more still at home.