Visit the long ago crime and dire deeds in the Hudson Valley of New
York.
The Hudson Valley is drenched in history, culture and blood. In the fall
of 1893, Lizzie Halliday left a trail of bodies in her wake,
slaughtering two strangers and her husband before stabbing a nurse to
death at the asylum housing her. A Jazz Age politician, tired of
fighting with his overbearing wife, murdered her and buried the body
under the front porch. In 1882, a cantankerous old miner, dubbed the
Austerlitz Cannibal by the press, chopped up his partner before he
himself swung from the end of a rope. Author Andrew Amelinckx dredges up
the Hudson Valley's dark past, from Prohibition-era shootouts to
unsolved murders, in eleven heart-pounding true stories.