Murder in Carlisle's East End: Unintended Consequences (True by Paul D. Hoch

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By Paul D. Hoch

On July 12, 1926, Frances Bowermaster McBride, a forty-year-old divorcee, known as off her affair with twenty-seven-year-old Norman Morrison. pushed right into a rage, Morrison tracked Frances to her domestic in Carlisle's East finish, the place she sat at the porch together with her three-year-old daughter, Georgia, on her lap. Morrison shot and killed Frances sooner than turning the pistol on himself. Morrison lived yet was once blinded. younger Georgia fell to the pavement unhurt. ultimately status trial, Morrison was once convicted of first-degree homicide. Historian Paul D. Hoch is going past the conviction as he strains the later lives of Morrison and Georgia McBride as she got here of age in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Hoch spins a story of homicide, perseverance and, finally, redemption.

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