Murder in Rural Hill: The Tragic Tale of Miss Janie Sharp by W McCully

March 4, 2017 by admin

By W McCully

Janie Sharp have been murdered whereas jogging domestic alongside a wooded nation lane on a scorching July afternoon in 1910 close to the backwoods group of Rural Hill, Mississippi. Suspicions fell instantly upon a tender guy, Swinton Permenter, no longer but eighteen himself. A two-year ordeal ensued that incorporated a tribulation and conviction, a excellent court docket ruling that overturned the conviction, suspicions solid upon others, the murders of 2 males and a moment trial that used to be a sensation throughout Mississippi and the South.

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