Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2019/07/29/a-true-crime-book-for-every-us.html
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Of course it’s Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil for GA! Not that I’m complaining. It’s a wonderful book. It includes both the legendary GA lawyer Bobby Lee Cook (only briefly, with a glimpse of June, too) and the late, great Lady Chablis!
I don’t know if it’s available online (maybe behind a pay wall) but one year, back when Steve Thomas was still the host, This Old House did a season from Savannah, and of course they talked about the book. And they interviewed Chablis in an episode…
It’s this one, I believe:
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Little Rhody does not - but probably should have the story of Doris Duke, the heiress to the Reynolds tobacco fortune, who killed a man: her chauffeur/lover, with whom she was having a spat. But the files all disappeared when she established a big historical restoration project in Newport.
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Is MA is represented by one of the various Whitey Bulger books? Jebus, we can’t get enough of that guy up here, everyone talks about what a monster he was but is so happy when another book or movie comes out.
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It’s a book about the Tsarnaevs.
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AAA Tour Book for NJ is pretty damn scary
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I’m not sure why, but I’m a bit sad that the Wisconsin book is on Dahmer and not Gein. Or maybe I should be sad that Wisconsin actually had two famous cannibalistic serial killers?
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I don’t want to waste a look at the NYT because they block incognito viewing, but can I assume that Indiana is Belle Gunness and the one from Illinois is H.H. Holmes?
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Sad, and more than a little worried.
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I thought he died years ago. Any of his books would be a good choice for California, albeit fictional.
My reaction was the same. Maybe because people never told Dahmer jokes. (I kind of enjoyed the Ed Gein jokes when I lived there, until I discovered that he was still alive and only bicycling distance from me. Yikes!)
Pro tip on NYT viewing: refresh the page, but hit your browser’s “stop reload” button during the second between when you refresh and when block screen appears.
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Thanks for that!
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When I was living in Savannah the story was such a big part of the city’s folklore that locals simply referred to it as “The Book.”
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Without looking, wouldn’t Illinois be John Wayne Gacy?
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No, no, no…this was already on Digg. As I commented elsewhere, absolutely the iconic true crime book for California is “Helter Skelter”, about Charles Manson.
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The Taliesin Massacre, which wiped out Frank Lloyd Wright’s family, was too boring to have made the list
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Yes, the Illinois book is Devil In The White City, Holmes all the way.
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Indiana
Wendy Gamber, “The Notorious Mrs. Clem: Murder and Money in the Gilded Age”
“By 1868 the formerly quiet town of Indianapolis was becoming ‘a city of strangers,’ and nearby Cold Spring was a more inviting place to settle — except for that blood-soaked patch of ground on the west bank of the White River where the bodies of Jacob and Janey Young were found on the morning of Sept. 13.”
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I think that’s still pretty true.
Yeah, Me neither. Almost everything is behind a paywall these days.
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