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Following up his acclaimed anthology Queen City Gothic, crime historian JT Townsend takes on Cincinnati’s most infamous murderers of the 20th century in his second compilation. Here are thirteen more true crimes that exhume the sinister side of human nature, including:
- WRATH: Betty Butler publicly drowns a woman in Sharon Woods Lake in 1952 – was the victim her lesbian lover or was this beautiful young woman freeing herself from sexual slavery?
- GREED: Vinton Perin shoots his wealthy mother-in-law in her Clifton mansion while arguing about money in 1924 – what did Frances Rawson say that made the businessman snap?
- SLOTH: When her adoptive mother tells her she will have to move out in 1969, 23-year-old Barbara Shutt brutally murders her on a Sunday morning, and then leaves for her riding lesson.
- PRIDE: In 1961, handsome former football star Jack Rauss’s visit with old family friends turns deadly when Goldie Cunningham casts aspersions on the character of his mother.
- LUST: Robert Ray Abbott had plans for buxom nurse Wanda Cook in 1964, but something went horribly wrong in his hotel “love nest – did his girlfriend Alice Ewing hold the key to this slaying?
- ENVY: The 1958 murder of Louise Bergen had all the signs of a broken love triangle – did Edythe Klumpp kill her lover Bill Bergen’s wife, or was the victim’s husband the real culprit?
- GLUTTONY: Teddy Hines had a vampire’s hunger to kill, climaxing in the 1937 beating, stomping, and biting death of a young woman in the popular Inwood Park dance pavilion.
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