While the Midwest may be known for salt-of-the-earth folks, it's also home to murder and mayhem.
In Murderous Acts: 100 Years of Crime in the Midwest , Keven McQueen explores a century of true crimes committed in 10 Midwestern states, from the 1840s to the 1940s.
With a touch of gallows humor, McQueen relies on original research to recount infamous transgressions--including Michigan's Robert Irving Latimer case, the serial murders of Nebraskan Jake Bird, and the bloody deeds of Kansas's Bender family--as well as gruesome tales that are less well known, such as the Wisconsin man with a penchant for swinging an axe at the necks of men he didn't care for, the Hoosier who killed his sweetheart in the midst of a Halloween ball, and the French nobleman who wreaked havoc in a St.
Louis hotel.
Murderous Acts will intrigue and delight fans of true crime and will send a shiver down the spine of any reader fascinated by the dark history of America's Heartland.
About author(s): Keven McQueen is author of 20 books covering American history, the supernatural, biography, historical true crime, and what he calls real-life surrealism.
His books include Horror in the Heartland: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Midwest , Creepy California: Strange and Gothic Tales from the Golden State , Weird Wild West: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic , and New England Nightmares: True Tales of the Strange and Gothic .
His work has been anthologized by the Jesse Stuart Foundation and Texas Christian University Press.
He has guested on radio shows and podcasts including Darkness Radio , 30 Odd Minutes , Paranormal View , Controversial TV , Most Notorious , Thorne and Cross Haunted Nights Live , Mind's Eye , Still Unsolved , and Fringe Radio .
Recently, his books have been mentioned in articles in the New York Times and on the Daily Beast/Yahoo News.
McQueen is a senior lecturer in English at Eastern Kentucky University in Richm.
| Acts | 100 |
|---|---|
| About author(s) | Keven |
| Heartland | Strange and |
| California | Strange and |
| West | True |
| Nightmares | True |
Quarry Books Murderous acts: 100 years of crime in the midwest, paperback/keven mcqueen
