Blood on the Mitten: Infamous Michigan Murders 1700s to Present (Mitten Mayhem)

Before Michigan became a state there were witch trials scalp collectors dirty sports and a massacre of epic proportions. The lumber era that followed made Michigan as much of a wild wild west as Deadwood. And Prohibition allowed a group of Detroit thugs to run roughshod over even the likes of Al Capone.Blood on the Mitten highlights 57 infamous murder cases from Detroit to the Upper Peninsula. Read aboutA father who shoots his daughter and friends for being hippies just as an eerily similar tale hits the silver screenA widow whose love of dressing up leaves a trail of poisoned relatives acrossthe Lower PeninsulaA lawless Upper Peninsula town that not only hangs two criminals without trial but forces women to lie with the corpsesA murder that spread its victims body parts along I-75 from Detroit to PellstonIn Blood on the Mitten crimes of passion crimes of necessity and cold calculated evil take on flesh bones and blood. The highly illustrated book also looks at historical context of murder in Michigan and beyond.