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The Ax Murders of Saxtown. The Unsolved Crime That Terrorized a Town and Shocked the Nation.
Nicholas J. C. Pistor
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Paperback. Now in paperback, the story of one of our nation's most infamous and horrific crimes: The Saxtown Massacre. The 1874 murder of a family of five near St. Louis grabbed national headlines like no murder had since the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, and investigations into the crime exposed the flaws of nineteenth-century law enforcement. Num Pages: 256 pages, 18 black & white halftones. BIC Classification: 1KBBNU; 3JH; BTC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 220 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 21.
An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes. In 1874, the Saxtown massacre rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant farming community in Illinois. The murder of the Stelzriede family led investigators through the forests and farmland, chasing footprints, bloody tobacco leaves, and the marks of an ax dragged away from the scene. Nicholas J.C. Pistor’s The Ax Murders of Saxtown is a gripping tale of suspense and suspicion that exposes brand new information about ... Read more
An entire household massacred. A family feud. A sheriff found dead. Neighbor turned against neighbor. Reports of ghosts, bounty hunters, deathbed confessions, and legacy fortunes. In 1874, the Saxtown massacre rocked a nation reeling from economic depression and shattered a small German immigrant farming community in Illinois. The murder of the Stelzriede family led investigators through the forests and farmland, chasing footprints, bloody tobacco leaves, and the marks of an ax dragged away from the scene. Nicholas J.C. Pistor’s The Ax Murders of Saxtown is a gripping tale of suspense and suspicion that exposes brand new information about ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield United States
Number of pages
256
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Guilford, United States
ISBN
9780762788606
SKU
V9780762788606
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About Nicholas J. C. Pistor
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 news network, including NBC’s Today Show, CBS, Fox News, MSNBC, and CNN’s Nancy Grace. He grew up ... Read more
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