Ax Murders of Saxtown - The Unsolved Crime That Terrorized a Town and Shocked the Nation

Informationen zum Autor Nicholas J. C. Pistor is a reporter at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch who has broken stories on some of the biggest crimes in the Midwest and has been a consultant for CBS's 48 Hours true-crime series. He has appeared on nearly every major television news network, including NBC's Today Show, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN's Nancy Grace. He grew up a few miles from the Saxtown murder scene, where talk of the crime kept him awake as a boy. He currently lives in downtown St. Louis. Klappentext The story of the nation's most shocking crime after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln-the 1874 ax murder of a family of five in the small German-immigrant town of Saxtown that tore apart a community, grabbed national headlines, and revealed the flaws of 19th-Century law enforcement Zusammenfassung The story of the nation's most shocking crime after the assassination of Abraham Lincoln-the 1874 ax murder of a family of five in the small German-immigrant town of Saxtown that tore apart a community! grabbed national headlines! and revealed the flaws of 19th-Century law enforcement

Product details

• Authors: Nicholas Pistor, Nicholas J C Pistor, Nicholas J. C. Pistor, Pistor Nicholas J. C.
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 14.01.2014
• EAN: 9780762786978
• ISBN: 978-0-7627-8697-8
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Fiction > Suspense; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; True Crime, Missouri, TRUE CRIME / General, c 1800 to c 1900, 19th century, c 1800 to c 1899, MIDWEST;Missouri