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A modern retelling of 20 sensational true crimes, No Place Like Murder reveals the inside details behind nefarious acts that shocked the Midwest between 1869 and 1950. The stories chronicle the misdeeds, examining the perpetrators' mindsets, motives, lives, apprehensions, and trials, as well as what became of them long after.
True crime author Janis Thornton profiles notorious murderers such as Frankie Miller, who was fed up when her fiancé stood her up for another woman. As fans of the song "Frankie and Johnny" already know, Frankie met her former lover at the door with a shotgun.
Thornton's tales reveal the darker side of life in the Midwest, including the account of Isabelle Messmer, a plucky young woman who dreamed of escaping her quiet farm-town life. After she nearly took down two tough Pittsburgh policemen in 1933, she was dubbed "Gun Girl" and went on to make headlines from coast to coast. In 1942, however, after a murder conviction in Texas, she vowed to do her time and go straight. Full of intrigue and revelations, No Place Like Murder also features such folks as Chirka and Rasico, the first two Hoosier men to die in the electric chair after they brutally murdered their wives in 1913. The two didn't meet until their fateful last night.
An enthralling and chilling collection, No Place Like Murder is sure to thrill true crime lovers.
Contents
Forewords
Acknowledgments
Introduction
PART I: All in the Family
1. The Mysterious Death of Belle Shenkenberger
2. The Liberation of Nora Coleman
3. 'Sweet Dreams, Mother'
PART II: Wife Killers
4. Dan Snider and the Strychnine Solution
5. The Case of the Drowsy Uxoricidist
6. Death on Maish Road
7. Chirka and Rasico
PART III: To Err Can Be Murder
8. Manhunt for the In-law Outlaws
9. The Black Sheep of Goldsmith
PART IV: Loved to Death
10. He Was Her Man, But He Done Her Wrong
11. Fairy's Grim Tale of the Murder on LaFountain
PART V: Deadly Decisions
12. Murder on Anderson and Main
13. The Strawtown Murders
14. Murder Unbecoming a Hero
PART VI: Worst of the Worst
15. The Awful Crime of Jesse McClure
16. Massacre on Laughery Creek
PART VII: Local Legends
17. The Legend of Kokomo Mayor H.C. Cole
18. Gun Girl
PART VIII: Unsolved but Unforgotten
19. Murder Most Foul
20. The Strange Death of Garnet Ginn
