True Crime in Adams County Volume 2

<p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>In </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)><em>True Crime in Adams County Volume 2</em></strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> Quincy native and bestselling author </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Robert Turek</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> returns to his hometown's darkest chapters uncovering real cases that shook this Mississippi River community from the 1800s through the late 20th century. Drawing from contemporaneous newspaper accounts court records archival research and family oral histories Turek reconstructs crimes that are as unsettling as anything from big-city headlines only these happened in the place thousands of people still call home.</span></p><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Inside readers will encounter:</span></p><ul><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The horrifying </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Mass Murder in Mendon</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> where a mother kills her four children before taking her own life in 1989.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The eerie case of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The Blind Murderer</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a wealthy sightless man entangled in the brutal axe killings of his wife and niece on a Liberty farm.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The heartbreaking mystery of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>infanticide in LaPrairie</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> and a judge who dares the public to blame him for setting a mother free.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The story of </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Quincy's Original Drug Kingpin</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> a large-scale narcotics trafficker who also happens to be the author's great-great uncle.</span></li><li><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>The rise and spectacle of the </span><strong style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Ku Klux Klan in Quincy</strong><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)> during the 1920s complete with hooded gatherings flaming crosses and political influence.</span></li></ul><p></p><p><span style=color: rgba(0 0 0 1)>Turek writes with the pacing of a true crime novelist and the care of a local historian. He avoids sensationalism treating each victim with respect while honestly portraying the choices and circumstances that led ordinary people into extraordinary darkness.</span></p><p></p>