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Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City

Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City
Author: Pat Hendrix
Publisher: Murder & Mayhem
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781596291621

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Perhaps Charlestonian James Louis Petigru said it best when he declared in 1861 that South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum. South Carolina has consistently been one of the most violent places in American history, and Charleston has served as much a hotbed of criminal mayhem as a holy city. While many books explore the illustrious past of this national treasure, few delve into this darker and equally fascinating side of its past. With this new book, historian Pat Hendrix takes a look at the history of crime in the Holy City. Starting with a war that nearly extinguished the fledgling city, he moves through the centuries, bringing to light such sordid tales as the Six Mile House murders, the Dutartre family cult, the murder of newspaper publisher Frank Dawson and the horrific discovery of South Carolina's first serial killer. Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City is an eye-opening foray into Charleston's underworld that calls into question the sanitized, celebrated history often told today and offers an enjoyable romp through more than three centuries of human drama.


Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City

Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City
Author: Pat Hendrix
Publisher: History Press Library Editions
Total Pages: 130
Release: 2006-08
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781540204271

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Perhaps Charlestonian James Louis Petigru said it best when he declared in 1861 that South Carolina is too small for a republic, but too large for an insane asylum. South Carolina has consistently been one of the most violent places in American history, and Charleston has served as much a hotbed of criminal mayhem as a holy city. While many books explore the illustrious past of this national treasure, few delve into this darker and equally fascinating side of its past. With this new book, historian Pat Hendrix takes a look at the history of crime in the Holy City. Starting with a war that nearly extinguished the fledgling city, he moves through the centuries, bringing to light such sordid tales as the Six Mile House murders, the Dutartre family cult, the murder of newspaper publisher Frank Dawson and the horrific discovery of South Carolina s first serial killer. Murder and Mayhem in the Holy City is an eye-opening foray into Charleston s underworld that calls into question the sanitized, celebrated history often told today and offers an enjoyable romp through more than three centuries of human drama."


Murder and Mayhem

Murder and Mayhem
Author: Rhys Ford
Publisher: Dreamspinner Press
Total Pages: 234
Release: 2015-06-05
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1634762231

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To clear his name of a murder charge, former thief Rook Stevens must turn to the last man he’d expect to help him—Detective Dante Montoya.


A LOOK AT CHRISTIANITY

A LOOK AT CHRISTIANITY
Author: FREDERIC COLMAN
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
Total Pages: 443
Release: 2011-09-07
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 1462849415

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Most people claim to belong to some religion or another, but very few know much about the substance of their beliefs, and as adults still believe what they learned about their religion as children. Scientific advancement, especially in geology, astronomy, biology and archaeologist has revealed an understanding of the structure of the Earth and the Universe, which is very different from the belief scientists had only a few decades ago. Recent archaeological finds, has changed the way we think of the early history of Israel, and this indicates that many of the stories in the Bible are fables.


History's Lost Moments Volume V

History's Lost Moments Volume V
Author: Tom Horton
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 435
Release: 2014-10-09
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1490744703

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A collection of newspaper columns that appeared in The Moultrie news, a weekly newspaper serving Mount Pleasant and the east of the Cooper area of Charleston County.


Six Miles to Charleston

Six Miles to Charleston
Author: Bruce Orr
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Total Pages: 118
Release: 2016-09-12
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 1614232814

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The shocking true story of America’s first female serial killer, half of a husband and wife team who terrorized Charleston, SC, in the early 19th century. On February 18th, 1820, John and Lavinia Fisher were executed in front of some two thousand South Carolinians. To this day, legends of the husband-and-wife serial killers range from the fearsome to the fantastical—and many swear they have encountered Lavinia’s ghost haunting the Old Charleston Jail House. But in Six Miles to Charleston, local historian and former homicide investigator Bruce Orr uncovers their horrifying true story. When a young man outwitted John and Lavinia in 1819, he escaped death and went straight to the authorities. Orr recounts the investigation from the initial police raid on the murderous couple’s Six Mile Inn—with its reportedly grisly cellar—to their capture, incarceration and dramatic last moments of life. But as Orr reveals, there still may be more sinister deeds left unpunished. An overzealous sheriff, corrupt officials and documents only recently discovered all suggest that there is more to the tale.


Milwaukee Mayhem

Milwaukee Mayhem
Author: Matthew J. Prigge
Publisher: Wisconsin Historical Society
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2015-10-05
Genre: True Crime
ISBN: 0870207172

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From murder and matchstick men to all-consuming fires, painted women, and Great Lakes disasters--and the wide-eyed public who could not help but gawk at it all--"Milwaukee Mayhem" uncovers the little-remembered and rarely told history of the underbelly of a Midwestern metropolis. "Milwaukee Mayhem" offers a new perspective on Milwaukee's early years, forgoing the major historical signposts found in traditional histories and focusing instead on the strange and brutal tales of mystery, vice, murder, and disaster that were born of the city's transformation from lakeside settlement to American metropolis. Author Matthew J. Prigge presents these stories as they were recounted to the public in the newspapers of the era, using the vivid and often grim language of the times to create an engaging and occasionally chilling narrative of a forgotten Milwaukee. Through his thoughtful introduction, Prigge gives the work context, eschewing assumptions about "simpler times" and highlighting the mayhem that the growth and rise of a city can bring about. These stories are the orphans of Milwaukee's history, too unusual to register in broad historic narratives, too strange to qualify as nostalgia, but nevertheless essential to our understanding of this American city.


Murder in the Holy City

Murder in the Holy City
Author: Ben Greer
Publisher:
Total Pages: 180
Release: 2006
Genre: Fiction
ISBN:

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Homicide detective Archibald Sims investigates a series of bizarre murders in the S.C. Lowcountry and discovers his girlfriend and son may be among the killer's targets.


The Green Count

The Green Count
Author: Christian Cameron
Publisher: Orion
Total Pages: 560
Release: 2017-07-13
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1409165256

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One of the finest historical fiction writers in the world - Ben Kane After the bloody trials of Alexandria, Sir William Gold is readying for a pilgrimage to Jerusalem to ease the burden on his soul. He hopes, too, that the Holy City might allow his relationship with Emile, cousin of the Green Count of Savoy, to develop. But the Roman Emperor of Constantinople has been taken hostage by an unknown enemy, and the Green Count is vital to the rescue effort. It is up to Sir William to secure his support, but he soon finds that his past, and his relationship with Emile, might have repercussions he had not foreseen... Suddenly thrust onto the stage of international politics, Sir William finds himself tangled in a web of plots, intrigue and murder. He must hold true to his chivalric principles, and to his knights, if he is to save the Emperor and survive to tell the tale.


In His Name

In His Name
Author: E. Christopher Reyes
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Total Pages: 469
Release: 2014-05-16
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1490736182

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Today, almost all the major Christian sects tell their followers what they can or cannot read. The truth could be disastrous to their faith. In 1562, the Vatican established a special censoring office called Index Expurgatorius, whose sole purpose was to prohibit the publication of Erroneous Passages of the Early Church Fathers, which carried statements opposing their modern-day dogma. The Word is whatever the Christian Church says it is and when Vatican archivists came across genuine copies of the Church Fathers, they corrected [edited, added, abridged, condensed, and supplemented] them according to the Expurgatory Index (Index Expurgatorius Vaticanus, R. Gibbings, ed., Dublin, 1837; The Literary Policy of the Church of Rome, Joseph Mendham, J. Duncan, London, 1830, 2nd ed., 1840; The Vatican Censors, op. cit., p. 328). But throughout history, few but the great thinkers of society understood this symbiotic relationship of politics and religion, and those who spoke out became stigmatized by both the powerful priesthood and the ruling oligarchy. You sniveling priest, you are imposing delusions upon society for your own aggrandizement (Voltaire, French philosopher, rationalist, free thinker). ________________________________________ All developed societies are but an extension of the political views of the ruling oligarchy upon the many, the suffering poor. If every criminal and inhumane act ever committed were traced to its root cause, that root would be buried deep in religion (Sherry Matulis, activist, 1931). ________________________________________ The most infamous Catholic of the all time, one of historys great mass murderers, Hitler, realizes the symbiotic relationship between children and religion and puts it succinctly in the twentieth century: The state must declare the child to be the most precious treasure of the people. As long as the government is perceived as working for the benefit of the children, the people will happily endure almost any curtailment of liberty and almost any deprivation (Adolf Hitler, Mein Kampf).