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A Mystery In The Georgia Woods: The Woolfolk Murders, John Trussel, Donald E. Wilkes
A Mystery In The Georgia Woods: The Woolfolk Murders, John Trussel, Donald E. Wilkes
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When you take a walk in the woods to hunt or just to enjoy the outdoor beauty, you never know what might have happened there in the past. A large tract of woodlands in Bibb County is a good example. When I visited there recently, the woods were calm and quiet and the mature oak trees stood in silent witness to the violence that occurred here many years ago. But on August 6, 1887 nine persons were slain at this location in the woods, just off highway 74 in Bibb County. The house where the murders occurred is long gone, …
Book Review: And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder Of Mary Phagan And The Lynching Of Leo Frank (2003), Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Book Review: And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder Of Mary Phagan And The Lynching Of Leo Frank (2003), Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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Book Review of AND THE DEAD SHALL RISE: THE MURDER OF MARY PHAGAN AND THE LYNCHING OF LEO FRANK, by Steve Oney (Pantheon Books, 2003).
The Trial Of The Century--And Of All Time, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
The Trial Of The Century--And Of All Time, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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The defeat of Nazi Germany brought to the forefront a problem the Allies had been grappling with for years -- what should be done with the Nazi leaders who had not been killed, committed suicide, or escaped into hiding? The Allies agreed that the top Nazi leadership could not allowed their liberty. But beyond that the Allies were in sharp disagreement. Some wanted to summarily execute the Nazi leadership without further ado. Others wanted to place the Nazi leaders on trial and punish them only if convicted. On August 8, 1945 the four principal Allies -- the United States, the …
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial In History, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
The Cadaver Synod: Strangest Trial In History, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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One thousand one hundred and four years ago a criminal trial took place in Italy, a trial so macabre, so gruesome, so frightful that it easily qualifies as the strangest and most terrible trial in human history. At this trial, called the Cadaver Synod, a dead pope wrenched from the grave was brought into a Rome courtroom, tried in the presence of a successor pope, found guilty, and then, in the words of Horace K. Mann's The Lives of the Popes in the Early Middle Ages (1925), "subjected to the most barbarous violence."
Footsteps Of The Ripper, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Footsteps Of The Ripper, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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While on leave recently from the University, I spent several months in London researching crime in England, and was able to visit the sites of the Ripper murders and other places associated with the Ripper.
Bloody Woolfolk, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
Bloody Woolfolk, Donald E. Wilkes Jr.
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A century ago, Oct. 29, 1890, the man who committed the most horrible and notorious murders in the history of the state of Georgia was publicly executed on the gallows. He killed more persons on a single occasion than any other murderer in America who did not use a gun, explosives, fire, or an automobile. Although he performed his crimes near Macon and was hanged in Perry, the murderer had close ties to Athens, where he was raised. Because the story of these murders is rarely mentioned in books on the history of crime in America and because the story …