Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana

by Jane Simon Ammeson

Even the most sensational and scandalous crimes can disappear into history, the spine-chilling tales forgotten by subsequent generations. Murders that Made Headlines reveals some of these extraordinary but forgotten true events that captured the public's attention in the course of the last 200 years. Jane Simon Ammeson recounts the astonishing and sometimes bizarre stories of arsenic murders, Ponzi schemes, prison escapes, perjury, and other shocking crimes that took place in the Hoosier state. When we think of bygone eras, we often imagine gentile women, respectable men, simpler times, mannerly interactions, and intimate acquaintances, but Murders that Made Headlines reveals the notorious true crimes lurking in our history.

Genres: True Crime

212 pages, Paperback

Published August 1, 2017

About the author

Ever since she started her own newspaper at age eight, selling it to neighbors who had no choice but to subscribe, Jane has loved to write. She’s now upped her game writing about travel, food, history for newspapers, magazines and Websites and is the author of 14 books including the recently released How to Murder Your Wealthy Lovers and Get Away With It; Murder & Mayhem in the Gilded Age, Lincoln Back Roads and Side Trips, Hauntings of the Underground Railroad: Ghosts of the Midwest and Murders that Made Headlines: Crimes of Indiana. She also authored A Jazz Age Murder in Northwest Indiana, a true crime book about a murder that took place in her hometown. Jane writes a weekly food column for the Herald Palladium and Shelf Life, a book column for the Times of Northwest Indiana, and currently has three Bindu Travel Apps: Michigan Road Trips, Experience Curacao and Indiana Journeys.

A member of the Society of American Travel Writers (SATW), the International Food Wine Travel Writers Association (IFWTA) and Midwest Travel Journalists Association (MTJA), Jane’s home base is on the shores of Lake Michigan in Southwest Michigan. Follow Jane on Facebook at janesimonammeson; Twitter @janeammeson1 and @travelfoodIN and on her blogs janeammeson.blog and shelflife.blog

Reviews

[A Allen · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ammeson's formatting makes the cases difficult to follow. Although presented as true crime, the book ends up being one part incomplete newspaper article, one part author's opinion about the crime, and one part ghost legend. I liked the idea of the book but the execution was bad. I'm glad I didn't buy it.

[Lynn · Rating 3 out of 5]

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