ASIN: B00OPJELYS
Publisher: Amazon Digital Services LLC
Pages: 295
Journalist and novelist Pete Hamill once said, “There is a growing feeling that perhaps Texas is really another country, a place where the skies, the disasters, the diamonds, the politicians, the women, the fortunes, the football players and the murders are all bigger than anywhere else.”For a boy who grew up on the streets of New York City, that’s a pretty bold observation, but perhaps true, especially concerning the murders. Case in point:October 1897: a Panhandle, Texas Methodist minister decides to slip his faithful wife of seventeen years a lethal dose of strychnine the day after their 17th wedding anniversary in order to marry a wealthy socialite. A Chief Justice of the Texas Supreme Court wrote about the case “The facts show for deliberate fiendishness, they are almost without parallel in the annals of criminal jurisprudence.”Christmas Eve 1926: authorities in Farwell, Texas ...
