With Wicked Carlisle, author Joe Cress revisits the criminal history of
Cumberland County. Taking a more focused and less bloody approach, Cress
will largely bring new stories of mischief to the table, though he will
revisit the lighter side of two or three crimes from Murder and Mayhem
in Cumberland County. From stories of college pranks gone wrong,
Carlisle's own Robin Hood and the robbing and subsequent torching of a
beloved local theater (the Strand where the local HS now sits ) to
abuses at the Carlisle Indian School and the town's connection to the
raid on Harper's Ferry, Cress scours the underbelly of the borough for
mischief and misdeeds.