Description
In this gripping work of true crime and historical investigation, a series of brutal axe murders committed across rural America between 1898 and 1912 may point to a single, previously unidentified killer who traveled from place to place by rail. Bill James and Rachel McCarthy James revisit the notorious Villisca axe murders and connect them to a wider pattern of crimes, using painstaking research to reconstruct investigations conducted long before modern forensics. The book explores the challenges of solving crimes across isolated communities, the dangers of rumor and public suspicion, and the limitations of early twentieth-century policing. Combining analytical rigor with vivid narrative, it offers a provocative portrait of a criminal mystery whose full scope may never be known.
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paperback
Scribner
Published Oct 9, 2018
ISBN: 9781476796260
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Details
First Published
2017
Language
eng
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for The Man from the Train by Bill James.