Robert Scott (c. 1941 – January 9, 2015) was a New York Times best-selling American non-fiction author who wrote 20 true crime books.
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 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.
[3] TruTV's "Crime Library" recounted Scott's book Like Father Like Son about the 2000 murder of 9-year-old Krystal Steadman.