An excerpt from the murder of Ella and John Coppersmith from Heinous: Forgotten Murders From the 1910s by Melina Druga Russell Pethrick, a 22-year-old grocery delivery boy, was one of the suspects police interrogated and quickly released because they lacked evidence. During his interrogation, police showed Pethrick a series of photographs and to see if…
A new book, Heinous: Forgotten Murders From the 1910s, examines how crime was surging in the 1910s, especially murder In Heinous: Forgotten Murders From the 1910s, you’ll travel back to a violent decade – a time when “idiots and morons” were police departments’ first suspects, when journalists had the opportunity to conduct interrogations and when forensics…
