Murder & Mayhem in Central Massachusetts - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder & Mayhem in Central Massachusetts write by Rachel Faugno. This book was released on 2016-02-29. Murder & Mayhem in Central Massachusetts available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. “A chilling chronicle of local true-life murders that reach back into the long-forgotten seamy history of Worcester County” (Vitality Magazine). The bucolic image of central Massachusetts belies a dark and sometimes deadly past. Grisly crimes and grim misdeeds reach back to colonial settlement in Worcester County, from an escaped slave hanged for rape in 1768 at the Worcester jail to the Sutton choir singer convicted of drowning his wife in 1935. Henry Hammond’s 1899 suicide and the others that followed shook Spencer residents to their cores. Some crimes still grip the imaginations of residents, while others have faded from collective memory. Author Rachel Faugno investigates this sinister history. Includes photos!
Murder & Mayhem in Boston
Murder & Mayhem in Boston - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder & Mayhem in Boston write by Christopher Daley. This book was released on 2015-09-21. Murder & Mayhem in Boston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A century of Boston’s thrill killers, psychos, and fiends—notorious in their day, now nearly forgotten—from the Antebellum era through the 1970s. The Boston Strangler may be the most infamous serial killer in Massachusetts history, but his crimes pale in comparison with the carnage of those profiled in this chilling compendium. Covering a century the city’s heinous past, journalist Christopher Daley reveals nine of the most sensational cases that once made headlines across the country: Kenneth Harrison, aka “The Giggler” whose random victims ranged from children to men to an elderly woman he tossed over the Broadway Bridge, just for fun; upstanding Albert Tirrell, who claimed he was sleepwalking when he slit the throat of his mistress, prostitute Maria Bickford, and set her on fire; Jesse Pomeroy, a natural-born sadist and, at fourteen, the youngest convicted serial killer in the annals of American crime. Here too are the shocking tales of the Bussey Woods murders, the Barrel Butcher, the Boston Skull Cracker, and more. Featuring rare photographs, as well as maps to extant crime scenes, Murder & Mayhem in Boston is a must for true crime aficionados.
Murder & Mayhem in MetroWest Boston
Murder & Mayhem in MetroWest Boston - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder & Mayhem in MetroWest Boston write by James L. Parr. This book was released on 2021-05-24. Murder & Mayhem in MetroWest Boston available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. MetroWest is known for its rolling farmland, winding rivers and quaint white churches facing green town commons. But looks can be deceiving. Tales from these small towns captured headlines and shocked readers across the state with lurid details of betrayal, cruelty, greed and murder. Nina Danforth, spurred on by love and jealousy, made a midnight call to the home of Andrew Emery in Framingham seeking revenge. The murder of spinster Mabel Page in Weston sent a man to the electric chair, and forty years before Lizzie Borden, the grisly axe murder of a husband and wife sent shock waves through the terrified town of Natick. Authors James L. Parr and Kevin A. Swope reveal the stories behind these crimes and the motives of the desperate criminals who perpetrated them.
Murder on the Dunes
Murder on the Dunes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder on the Dunes write by Martin Sokoloff. This book was released on 2004-07-23. Murder on the Dunes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Murder on the Dunes, by Martin Sokoloff takes place mostly in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and recounts the story of a murder which occurs there on the Day of the Blessing of the Fleet, a special day observed by the area's commercial fishermen.The book's main character is Dennis Dawes, the Provincetown Chief of Police, who works together with the State Police, and helps in the solving of the crime, which includes drug smuggling, as well as murder.Murder on the Dunes almost replicates the lifestyle of the area: laid back; somewhat unstructured and, at times, seemingly without objectives. Perhaps that is its charm.
Murder and Mayhem
Murder and Mayhem - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Murder and Mayhem write by Milli Knudsen. This book was released on 2024-11-19. Murder and Mayhem available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Murder and Mayhem, veteran author and genealogist Milli Knudsen looks at true crime in New Hampshire. In the rapidly changing world of 1883-1915, criminals and good citizens learned to cope with new ways to commit crimes and how to protect themselves. Emerging forensic science became a valuable tool. In those pre-internet days, newspapers widely covered the crimes and trials and created an audience of true crime readers, much like what we have today. Murders, robberies, the rise of insurance coverage and therefore arson, the reaction to the 1915 influenza outbreak (including resistance to mask wearing), sex crimes and the advent of financial crimes are all included in case studies averaging 300 to 800 words. Sometimes the lives of the investigators—the judges, doctors, and journalists who covered crime stories—are every bit as fascinating as the crimes themselves. Murder and Mayhem tells the stories behind the headlines and gives you a glimpse into life in New England in the years leading up to World War I. Illustrated with historical images of victims and criminals alike, and fully indexed, this volume is perfect for true crime buffs, and historians. Based on primary sources, including the second prison registry of the New Hampshire State Prison, at the New Hampshire State Archives, and NH court records of the time period, this volume is important for genealogists and a good choice for library acquisition. The world changed in dramatic ways between 1883 to 1915. The ways to commit crimes and the ways to investigate crime changed as well. Knudsen has captured these fascinating stories, among many others, from those years in her newest volume. Two immigrant lumberman have a fiddling contest. What could go wrong? Fifty years after a brutal knife attack, what Christmas miracle happened to a woman in North Adams, MA? How should a $1,000 reward be split between those who help apprehend a murderer who fled to Canada? If you had an old alarm clock, wire and an explosive, could you rig up a device which could burn your house down when you were hundreds of miles away? "Murder and Mayhem is both riveting reading and an agonizing reminder that the villains and monsters of our troubled time didn’t invent dishonesty and rage and hatred. The booty may have been smaller in the early days of our complicated history—a $6.00 payday instead of several billion in crypto crimes—but the intent was not dissimilar. Milli Knudsen, in her deceptively simple, Just the Facts, Ma’am compendium, has done an extraordinary job detailing ample proof of the duality of the human psyche and providing enough fascinating stories to fill a dozen seasons of a Netflix streamer." — Ernest Thompson, novelist, playwright, actor, director, Academy Award-winner for adapted screenplay of “On Golden Pond”
