Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana [Hardcover]

Even the most sensational and scandalous crimes can disappear into history, the spine-chilling tales forgotten by subsequent generations.Murders that Made Headlinesreveals 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, butMurders that Made Headlinesreveals the notorious true crimes lurking in our history.

Jane Simon Ammeson is a freelance writer and photographer who specializes in travel, food, and personalities. She writes frequently for theTimes of Northwest Indiana, Chicago Life Magazine, Edible Michiana, AAA Home & Away, Experience Curacao, Experience Rivera May, Nashville TennesseanandCincinnati Enquirer. She is the author ofHauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest,A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest IndianaandEast Chicago.

Introduction
1. Catherine Schumaker: An Indiana Lucretia Borgia
2. An Unfortunate Indiana Family: Minnie May and Luella Mabbitt
3. Jane Dorsey and the Poison Powders
4. The Death of Susan Beaver
5. Miss Bryan's Last Cry
6. Rough on Rats: How Not to Win Your Man
7. The Disappearance of Carrie Selvage
8. No Way to Treat Your Lovers
9. Bootlegging, Missing Wills, Disappearing Jewels, Deadly Encounters: The Story Of Nettie and Harry Diamond
10. The Lady and The Dragon: How Madge Overholtzer Brought Down the KKK
11. Double Indemnity
Selected Bibliography