Hoosier killers Indiana's darkest history
Book - 2014
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- Published
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Indianapolis, Ind. :
Blue River Press
2014, c2012.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Physical Description
- vii, 220 p. ; 23 cm
- ISBN
- 9781935628354
- Introduction
- The serial killers : not what you'd expect. Belle Gunness : the black widow of La Porte ; Leslie Irvin : the "Mad Dog" killer ; Larry Eyler : the highway killer ; Herb Baumeister : the bodies on Fox Follow Farm ; Orville Lynn Majors : Angel of death ; William Clyde Gibson : Kentuckiana demon
- The mass killers. The Fall Creek massacre : outrage and pardon ; The LaSalle Street killings : murder by numbers ; The Hollandsburg murders : Roger Drollinger's Thrill-Kill Cult ; The Burger Chef murders : still unsolved ; Steven Timothy Judy : the return of the death penalty ; Joseph Trueblood : the controversial plea ; Judy Kirby : the wrong way killer of IN 67 ; Sarah Jo Pender : sociopath or scapegoat? ; Hamilton Avenue : the crimes of Desmond Turner and James Stewart ; David Ison : the murders of the "Laurel Five"
- The race killers : the Klan and beyond. D.C. Stephenson : power, murder and the Klan ; Strange fruit : the Marion lynching ; The killing of Carol Jenkins : the Martinsville murder
- The gang killers : murder in numbers. The lynching of the Levi Gang : vigilante justice ; The Baniszewski Family : the murder of Sylvia Likens ; The Vandivers and the Komyatis : the family that slayed together ; The murder of Ruth Pelke : the case of Paula Cooper ; The killing of Shanda Sharer : four accomplices, one victim
- The traveling killers. Harry Pierpont : Dillinger's mentor ; John Dillinger : did he or didn't he? ; Charles Manson : the education of a madman ; Jim Jones : the cult leader
- The one-on-one killers. H.H. Holmes : America's first serial killer visits Irvington ; The murder of Marjorie Jackson : the rich widow of Spring Mill Road.