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CATALINA REESE, TEXAS RANGER

Catalina Jane Reese is a Texas Ranger who tracks down murderers and relentlessly seeks the truth behind the disappearance of her brother.

Catalina Reese was born and raised in Austin, Texas to a Mexican-American mother and an Anglo-American father. At the age of eight, her father, Henry Reese, passed away. Three years later, her mother, Janine, remarried to Howard Burgess, a family court judge. Catalina grew up in the Northwest Hills neighborhood in west Austin. When she was fifteen years old, her twelve year old brother, David, disappeared. After graduating from L.C. Anderson High School, Catalina went on to the University of Texas at Austin. She graduated from the University of Texas summa cum laude with a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology. Catalina then applied to join the Texas Highway Patrol.

After completing the entire application process, she went on to the Texas Department of Public Safety Training Academy in Austin, Texas. Upon graduating from the DPS training academy, Catalina was assigned as a Texas State Trooper to the San Antonio District. Six years into her career, she was promoted to Sergeant and transferred to the Criminal Intelligence Service of the Texas Department of Public Safety. After four years as a DPS criminal investigator, Catalina joined the Texas Ranger Division and was assigned to Company B. As a Texas Ranger, she is involved in investigating major incident crime investigations, unsolved crime and serial crime investigations, public corruption investigations, crimes against children, officer-involved shooting investigations and border security operations.

Although Catalina has garnered a reputation for overstepping her boundaries, she is known for her unrelenting pursuit to solve gruesome murders. Again and again she has displayed a deep psychological understanding that connected her to a killer's victims and to a killer him or herself, driving her to pursue each case to the end of the line. Catalina's an intelligent, fearless, strong, determined, woman whose work is her life, professional yet with an air of sadness, or possibly anger, that drives her. She's a woman of enormous empathy towards murder victims, for whom they are never just a body or a name. Fast becoming a favorite of her superior for her courage, intuition and dedication, Catalina can also be a thorn in his side for her lack of following protocol and "do whatever it takes" attitude.

She brings a deeply personal gift to the job, having been a victim of her dark past. Motivated by her past, including the disappearance of her brother and the suspicion that her stepfather is a serial killer, Catalina often finds herself emotionally connected to the victims she's investigating. She has enlisted the help of Dr. Tim Shepherd, a forensic psychologist who has a tumultuous relationship with law enforcement, to provide insight into her cases and her personal investigation into her stepfather. He too finds himself deeply connected to each case, but often through the criminal, which proves to be a hazardous undertaking. The pair shares a skewed sense of judgment that often puts them, and sometimes even their families, at risk. As these two captivating yet flawed characters come together, their bond often rescues them from their individual demons but may be the source of more harmful tribulations.