True Crime Chronicles

What do Jack the Ripper, Jesse James, The Texas Servant Girl Annihilator, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, and Jack the Kisser have in common?

They were all subjects of true crime newspaper reporting in the 1800s. And now these stories and that of many others are brought together in their original form in a two-volume set: TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES: ΓÇïSerial Killers, Outlaws, and Justice ... Real Crime Stories From The 1800s.

Compiled and commented on by New York Times bestselling author and former detective Mike Rothmiller, these classic works of journalism resurrect astonishing stories that will take the reader on a fascinating journey back in time to when these horrific tales mesmerized a nation. Some may find these articles and their descriptions of people and crimes shocking by today''s standards, but they are representative of the most colorful true crime stories of the day.

TRUE CRIME CHRONICLES, Volume Two, includes stories about Billy the Kid, Jesse James, the legendary "Jack the Ripper," Lizzie Halliday, Anna Maria Zwanziger, Jack the Haircutter, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, The Nebraska Murderer, and many more shocking stories. Follow along as these reporters from another century visit the crime scenes, interview witnesses, and pen the stories of murder, evil, and swift frontier justice.