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So Far from Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder

So Far from Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder

The headless corpse of a young woman, discovered in the woods of Northern Kentucky in February 1896, disrupted communities in three states. The woman was Pearl Bryan, daughter of a wealthy farmer in Greencastle, Indiana, and her suspected killers, Scott Jackson and Alonzo Walling, were dental students in Cincinnati, Ohio. How her decapitated body ended up in the Highlands of Kentucky is the subject of So Far from Home: The Pearl Bryan Murder. It was the age of yellow journalism when sensational murder cases drove newspaper circulation, and daily papers competed to print the most gruesome de ...

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Evangeline

Evangeline

Two FBI agents investigating the disappearance of a young woman stumble across a vicious murder and realize that solving the murder is the key to unlocking both cases. But it’s hard to find clues in a town full of secrets, and the deeper they dig, the more the agents find that noth ...

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The Bloody Century: True Tales of Murder in 19th Century America

The Bloody Century: True Tales of Murder in 19th Centur...

The Bloody Century retells the stories of Americans, driven by desperation, greed, jealousy, or an irrational bloodlust, to take the life of someone around them. It presents 50 of the most intriguing murder cases from the archives of American crime. Richly illustrated with scenes and portraits from the time of the murders, and including songs and poems written to commemorate the crimes, The Bloody Century invokes a fitting atmosphere for Victorian homicide. The days of America’s distant past, the time of gaslights and horse-drawn carriages, are often viewed as quaint and sentimental, but a ...

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The Vanishing Act: Unsolved Cases of America’s Most Mysterious Women: Shadows of the Past: The First Trilogy Collection

The Vanishing Act: Unsolved Cases of America’s Most Mys...

Explore the shadowy mysteries of America’s past with The Vanishing Act: Unsolved Cases of America’s Most Mysterious Women. This compelling trilogy collection brings together three captivating true crime narratives from the Shadows of the Past series, each immersing readers in the haunting stories of women whose disappearances and deaths shook their communities and confounded investigators.

 

Uncover the secrets of Dorothy Arnold, a young socialite whose sudden disappearance left high society in shock. Follow the scandalous t ...

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