Foul Deeds & Suspicious Deaths in Shrewsbury and Around Shropshire (Foul Deeds and Suspicious Deaths)
by David John Cox
Treason, witchcraft, robbery and murder, just a few of the crimes that could incur the penalty of death in the early days of Britain's justice system. Domestic violence was rife and alcohol was often the fuel that culminated in the murders of a wife or sweetheart. DNA, blood grouping & fingerpinting are now used to place a person at the scene of a crime. Before the use of forensics, evidence was often circumstantial and there is no doubt that in some cases an innocent person would have been han...
In 1868 a scion of one of the leading families of Richmond, Virginia, ambushed and killed the city's most controversial journalist over an article that had dishonored the killer's family. In 1892 a Democratic politician killed a crusading Danville minister after a dispute at the polls. In 1907 a former judge shot to death the son of the Nelson County sheriff for an alleged rape, and in 1935 an Appalachian schoolteacher stood accused of killing her father by beating him with a shoe. All of these...
Solving Cold Cases Vol. 6 (True Crime Cold Cases Solved, #6)
by Andrew J Clark
