Jack Smith
ASIN: B00REXTCFU
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 112
There’s never a good time to die violently, but Christmas tragedies are especially heinous.Download FREE with Kindle Unlimited! Christmas is a time for Peace on Earth and Good Will Toward Men. Holiday bloodshed feels like a sacrilege, but it does happen. Whether by accident or deliberate malice, scores of people have been killed on December 25 or the days surrounding it.This volume contains seven accounts of unnatural deaths that occurred on or around Christmas Day:•The Ashland Tragedy: On December 24, 1881, three burned corpses were pulled from a house in Ashland, Kentucky. They belonged to teenagers Robert Gibbons, Fannie Gibbons, and Emma Carrico, who had all been bludgeoned to death. The girls had also been sexually assaulted. A formerly quiet Kentucky town was plunged into a nightmare fueled by grief and lust for revenge. •Christmas Eve Combustion: On Christmas Day, 1885, Patrick ...