Michigan's Strychnine Saint: the Curious Case of Mrs. Mary McKnight

✍ Scribed by Buhk, Tobin T.

• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 872 KB
• Series: True crime
• Category: Fiction
• City: Mount Pleasant
• ISBN: 162619257X

✦ Synopsis

The spring of 1903 proveddisastrous for the Murphy family. On April 22, the infant Ruth Murphy died inher crib. Within an hour, her mother, Gertrude, experienced a violent spasmbefore she, too, died. Ten days later, John Murphy followed his wife and childto the grave after suffering from a crippling convulsion. While neighborswhispered about a curse and physicians feared a contagious disease, KalkaskaCounty sheriff John W. Creighton and prosecuting attorney Ernest C. Smithsearched for answers. As they probed deeper into the suspicious deaths, theyuncovered a wicked web of intrigue. And at the center stood a widow in a blacktaffeta dress.

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