The excitement and vibrancy of big-city thrills take a deadly turn when
they hit Staten Island. Edward Reinhardt murdered his wife and rolled
her body in a barrel down a busy thoroughfare. A known bootlegger--and
suspected police informant--was found shot three times in a Packard on
South Beach, sparking one of the island's greatest mysteries. In 1843,
the bodies of a mother and daughter were discovered in a Christmas Day
fire; a family member would stand trial three times for their deaths.
During the Jazz Age, a kiss would cost a popular Port Richmond teenager
her life. Local historian Patricia M. Salmon has meticulously researched
Staten Island's most horrific murders, some well known and others long
forgotten.