True Crime Stories of the South
9781540299789
Regular price $34.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Discover the South's Most Notorious Murders, Mysteries, and Criminal Masterminds
Journey from Texas to Virginia in this gripping collection of haunting criminal cases. Follow a relentless serial killer as he leaves a bloody trail across Louisiana and beyond, witness a cunning lonely-hearts swindler terrorize Texas, and uncover Arkansas's bizarre wave of strychnine poisonings that baffled investigators. Experience the supernatural when a West Virginia murder is revealed through dreams and meet a one-armed conjure-man whose murder-for-hire schemes shocked North Carolina.
Watch forensic science evolve as crimefighters expand their arsenal of detection tools in this compelling tour of the South's most notorious crimes, where fact proves stranger than fiction.
Crime writer Cathy Pickens brings a novelist’s eye to the sinister South and its defining—and quirky—crime stories.
The Murder of John Shakespeare
9781540299765
Regular price $34.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Authors Cary O’Dell and Richard L. Sprehe lead a literary investigation of a brutal cold-case murder.
In May 1975, in the small Southern Illinois town of Centralia, the body of one of its best-known residents, John Shakespeare, was found nearly nude, bound, and shot, execution-style, in the basement of his home. Shakespeare, sixty-nine, was a wealthy bachelor, an eccentric, an heir to the Shakespeare fishing fortune, a world-renowned collector of vintage cars, and, maybe, a possessor of a few secrets.
Despite the victim being well liked in the community, state and local police, and eventually even the FBI and Interpol, found a plethora of suspects while investigating the crime. Could it have been his longtime business associate? Or the mysterious hitchhiker seen in town just days before his body was found? Or a long-ago name from his past?
The Murder of John Shakespeare
9781467170192
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Authors Cary O’Dell and Richard L. Sprehe lead a literary investigation of a brutal cold-case murder.
In May 1975, in the small Southern Illinois town of Centralia, the body of one of its best-known residents, John Shakespeare, was found nearly nude, bound, and shot, execution-style, in the basement of his home. Shakespeare, sixty-nine, was a wealthy bachelor, an eccentric, an heir to the Shakespeare fishing fortune, a world-renowned collector of vintage cars, and, maybe, a possessor of a few secrets.
Despite the victim being well liked in the community, state and local police, and eventually even the FBI and Interpol, found a plethora of suspects while investigating the crime. Could it have been his longtime business associate? Or the mysterious hitchhiker seen in town just days before his body was found? Or a long-ago name from his past?
Utah Outlaw Patrick Coughlin
9781467159869
Regular price $24.99 Save Liquid error (snippets/product-template line 248): Computation results in '-Infinity'%Before Butch Cassidy, there was Patrick Coughlin.
It began with the theft of some strawberries from a street peddler in Park City, Utah Territory, in 1895. By the time it was over, two lawmen were dead, and Patrick Coughlin was facing a firing squad. The young gunslinger, in a desperate bid to escape the punishment for his initial crime, caused one of the most thrilling manhunts in the state’s history. The outlaw and his sidekick went on a crime spree, escalating from stealing horses to gunfights, all with the posse tailing them, ending in a shootout at a remote cabin. When Patrick Coughlin was finally recaptured and tried, he would become the first prisoner sentenced to death in the state.
Join author and lawyer Brian Craig as he recounts the thrilling story of Patrick Coughlin, Utah’s original desperado.
