Delve into Michigan's shocking true crime stories!
Killer Women of Michigan
by Tobin T. Buhk
They used arsenic to obtain chemical divorces and strychnine to settle scores. They bludgeoned husbands to make way for lovers. They flattened love triangles with blunt objects. They murdered for money, for revenge, for pleasure.
Meet the heiress who just could not take "no" for an answer from her mechanic lover; meet the two nursing home workers whose deadly game ended after the murders of six residents; meet the three sirens who lured a wealthy banker to the strip poker game of death. And many, many other Michigan mistresses of mayhem in this collection of true crime tales.
Dark Side of the Mitten: Crimes of Power & Powerful Criminals in Michigan's Past & Present
by Tom Carr
Michigan’s past has a more sinister side than what’s commonly displayed on roadside historical markers. In Dark Side of the Crimes of the Powerful and Powerful Criminals in Michigan’s Past and Present , author Tom Carr presents a wide array of stories about Michigan’s gritty and gruesome past, all told with his signature humor and irreverence. “[G]risly, goofy, poignant dispatches expertly summated by a skilled veteran reporter who’s no stranger to the back stairs habituated by a true sleuth. Story telling at its fully imagined best.” — Ben Hamper, bestselling author of Rivethead “Mild-mannered Midwestern Michigan is the land of lakeside cottages, auto industries, pasties—and murder? ... At times morbid and surprisingly colloquial, this collection serves to enlighten Michigan’s present with the truth of its past and sheds a respectful light on the memory of its victims.” — Great Lakes, Great Reads, Historical Society of Michigan “Author Tom Carr shows his reportorial chops with crisp, concise prose enhanced by a multitude of historical photographs, including miscellaneous graphics. Carr blends interesting content with some visually gruesome graphics. This collection is one that Michigan history bibliophiles will want on their shelves." — Joseph Heywood, author of the Woods Cop Mysteries
Maniac: The Bath School Disaster and the Birth of the Modern Mass Killer
by Harold Schechter
Harold Schechter, Amazon Charts bestselling author of Hell’s Princess, unearths a nearly forgotten true crime of obsession and revenge, and one of the first—and worst—mass murders in American history.
In 1927, while the majority of the township of Bath, Michigan, was celebrating a new primary school—one of the most modern in the Midwest—Andrew P. Kehoe had other plans. The local farmer and school board treasurer was educated, respected, and an accommodating neighbor and friend. But behind his ordinary demeanor was a narcissistic sadist seething with rage, resentment, and paranoia. On May 18 he detonated a set of rigged explosives with the sole purpose of destroying the school and everyone in it. Thirty-eight children and six adults were murdered that morning, culminating in the deadliest school massacre in US history.
Maniac is Harold Schechter’s gripping, definitive, exhaustively researched chronicle of a town forced to comprehend unprecedented carnage and the triggering of a “human time bomb” whose act of apocalyptic violence would foreshadow the terrors of the current age.
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