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Historic Crimes of Long Island: Misdeeds from the 1600s to the 1950s

By Kerriann Flanagan Brosky

Book information

Publisher
Arcadia Publishing
Year
2014
ISBN
9781439662298, 2017940948, 9781467137645
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3097578 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2022-10-02 07:03:21
HIS036080HistoryNonfictionTRU010000True Crime

Description

This true crime collection reveals centuries of rogues, murderers, spurned lovers and accused witches who called Long Island home. Author and historian Kerriann Flanagan Brosky uncovers some of the most ghastly and fascinating historical crimes committed on Long Island. Hidden just beneath the idyllic countryside and picturesque towns, there is a long and murky history of murder and mayhem. A Victorian romance went awry in Huntington when wealthy farmer Charles Kelsey was tarred, feathered and murdered in 1872. Thirty-five years before the famous witch trials of Salem, East Hampton had its own Puritan hysteria among charges of witchcraft. The 1937 kidnapping of wealthy heiress Alice Parsons shook the quiet town of Stony Brook and remains a mystery to this day. These and other tales are revealed in chilling volume.

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