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Murder in Old Kentucky
True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass
Keven McQueen (Author)
9780253057488
Paperback / softback, published 20 July 2021
214 pages
22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.322 kg
Author Keven McQueen acknowledges that his sense of humor "is as dark as the inside of a badger." . . . McQueen brings old and sorded stories to life based on his indefagitable research. Because of his descriptive detail, yet easily read prose, one might consider McQueen to have been an actual witness to the 25 crimes he presents. A bonus is the intersting historical perspective of Kentucky culture one gains from the stories.
Kentucky—land of bluegrass, horse racing, bourbon, and . . . murder. In Murder in Old Kentucky: True Crime Stories from the Bluegrass, Keven McQueen recounts dark and disturbing tales from the pages of Kentucky history, including the 1825 murder of Col. Solomon Sharp—a sordid affair that inspired Edgar Allan Poe and Robert Penn Warren—and the 1881 Ashland Tragedy, a heartbreaking murder of three innocent teenagers. This revised and expanded edition includes the story of a family terrorized by an arsonist who massacred eleven of their members and burned the property of even more, the tale of a husband and wife found shot in each other's arms with a life-sized photo of another man between them, and many more deaths that made headlines. Meticulously researched and written with McQueen's trademark humor, Murder in Old Kentucky will captivate any fan of true crime or Kentucky history.
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction to 2021 edition
1. Kentucky's First Great Murder
2. Richard Shuck Confesses All, and Then Some
3. A Mob Teaches Mr. Klein the Errors of His Ways
4. Playing It Cool!
5. Col. Buford Begs to Differ with Judge Elliott
6. An Argument for the Involuntary Commitment of the Criminally Insane
7. An Arsonist with a Grudge
8. Cold Case File, 1866
9. A Question of Sanity
10. The Hanging of John Vonderheide
11. A Regular Killing Machine
12. "A Little Fun:" The Ashland Tragedy
13. A Two-Fisted Professor Refuses to Take No for an Answer
14. Moses Caton, Family Man
15. Knox County Atrocity
16. A Possible Poisoner, and a Definite One
17. The Smart Murders, or: Choose Your Friends Wisely
18. How Not to Spend Homecoming Week
19. The Showers-Moore Tragedy
20. On the Benefits of Keeping One's Temper
21. A Heart in the Wrong Place
22. Two for the Chair
23. Murder on a College Campus
24. Same Story, Different Endings
25. The Head on the Mound
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