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Many decades before Ted Bundy roamed the country there was serial killer Earle Nelson. During the 1920s, this geographically mobile killer went from city to city. His modus operandi involved getting into a house by pretending to be a person looking for a room to rent or inspecting a house that was for sale, and then strangling the landlady, often followed by having sex with the dead body. Robbery was frequently a secondary motive. After Nelson was captured in Canada in 1927, it was commonly reported that he had killed 21 women and a baby during the 1926-27 period. But were these the only cases linked to him? The author examines an additional nine unsolved murders of landladies, two of which have never been dealt with in previous literature. Based on decades of archival research, the author examines all 31 murders, relying on primary sources when available and a wide variety of secondary sources. For each murder, the book provides biographical sketches of the victim, outlines the police investigation and the various suspects, and covers any subsequent attempts to link Nelson to the crime by identification evidence of witnesses or by fingerprints.
The hitchhiker seemed harmless. He was dressed in a blue suit and a colorful sweater, accessorized with a grey cap and tan shoes. He carried nothing. It was the morning of June 8, 1927, when the Chandler family picked up the well-dressed man in Minnesota and dropped him at the Canadian border. They had unwittingly transported notorious serial killer, “The Gorilla Man,” who had strangled more than twenty women from one end of the United States to the other. He would later murder Emily Patterson and 14-year-old Lola Cowan in Winnipeg. His identity was unknown. Written by Alvin A. J. Esau, The Gorilla Man Strangler Case: Serial Killer Earle Nelson is a detailed historical account of the Can...
Reprint, with additional material, of the 1950 ed. published in 7 v. by the Waynesburg Republican, Waynesburg, Pa., and in this format in Knightstown, Ind., by Bookmark in 1977.
Jacques Reverd was born in about 1646. He married Claudine Sordelet in about 1676. They had six children. He died 9 November 1716 in Courchaton, Haute Saône, France. Descendant François Revers was born 26 June 1823 In Froidefontaine, Haut-Rhin, France. He married Catherine Sircoulomb in 1847 in Doubs, France. They had eight children. They emigrated in 1854 and settled in Portsmouth, Ohio. Descendant Epworth Graham Revare (1896-1958) married E. Vivian Lake (1900-1991) a descendant of Daniel Lake, who was born in about 1771 in Virginia. Daniel married Elizabeth in about 1790 in Virginia. They had ten children. They lived in Buncombe County, North Carolina. Daniel died in Ralls County, Missouri in 1824. Ancestors, descendants and relatives lived mainly in France, Virginia, Kentucky, Missouri and Ohio. Includes Brothers, Keithley, Moorman, Ripper and related families.
(From interior)This book is dedicated to the people, businesses, churches and organizations of Gallia County as it celebrates, along with the great State of Ohio, the 200th anniversary of the year both became part of the United States of America.