On July 12, 1926, Frances Bowermaster McBride, a forty-year-old
divorcee, called off her affair with twenty-seven-year-old Norman
Morrison. Driven into a rage, Morrison tracked Frances to her home in
Carlisle's East End, where she sat on the porch with her three-year-old
daughter, Georgia, on her lap. Morrison shot and killed Frances before
turning the pistol on himself. Morrison lived but was blinded. Young
Georgia fell to the pavement unharmed. Eventually standing trial,
Morrison was convicted of first-degree murder. Historian Paul D. Hoch
goes beyond the conviction as he traces the later lives of Morrison and
Georgia McBride as she came of age in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Hoch spins
a tale of murder, perseverance and, ultimately, redemption.