Blood Seam True Crime from the Coal Towns of West Virginia, Kentucky, and Southern Ohio
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Beschreibung
Produktdetails
Einband
Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum
25.07.2026
Verlag
Independently PublishedSeitenzahl
228
Maße (L/B/H)
22,9/15,2/1,2 cm
Gewicht
312 g
Sprache
Englisch
EAN
9798189015168
Fifteen cases. Three states. One coal seam crossing every county line.From the mine wars of early twentieth-century West Virginia to an Ohio death initially suspected to be an overdose, Blood Seam follows documented crimes across the coal towns of West Virginia, eastern Kentucky, and southern Ohio.
An armored train passes through a strike settlement under gunfire, leaving a miner dead. Two union figures are killed on courthouse steps. A Black household employee is convicted on circumstantial evidence in a socially explosive murder. Harlan County miners receive life sentences when no jury can identify the fatal shooter. Men posing as FBI agents enter a doctor's home. An Ohio professor walks out of prison and disappears. A death-row conviction is reversed after hypnosis-tainted testimony and withheld evidence. Some cases ended in convictions. Others ended in acquittals, reversed verdicts, unresolved disappearances, or files that remain open. Drawing on court records, appellate opinions, government hearings, prison files, coroner findings, contemporary newspapers, and archival sources, Julian Maddox reconstructs fifteen cases without invented dialogue, composite characters, or false certainty. The result is more than a collection of murders. It is an account of how company power, county politics, race, class, reputation, media attention, and the limits of forensic science shaped what became official-and what remained beyond proof. Inside Blood Seam:- The West Virginia Mine Wars and the killing of Sid Hatfield
- The Mamie Thurman and Muriel Baldridge cases
- The Battle of Evarts and violence in Harlan County
- The murder of filmmaker Hugh O'Connor
- The wrongful-imprisonment fight of Dale Johnston
- Unsolved homicides from Fayette County to New Straitsville
>Blood Seam is Book One of the Shadow Counties series.
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