Murders That Made Headlines

<p>Even the most sensational and scandalous crimes can disappear into history the spine-chilling tales forgotten by subsequent generations. <i>Murders that Made Headlines</i> reveals some of these extraordinary but forgotten true events that captured the public's attention in the course of the last 200 years. Jane Simon Ammeson recounts the astonishing and sometimes bizarre stories of arsenic murders Ponzi schemes prison escapes perjury and other shocking crimes that took place in the Hoosier state. When we think of bygone eras we often imagine gentile women respectable men simpler times mannerly interactions and intimate acquaintances but <i>Murders that Made Headlines</i> reveals the notorious true crimes lurking in our history.</p>