Heartland Serial Killers

by Richard C. Lindberg

Lindberg, an accomplished local historian and true crime writer, presents a fascinating story of two contemporaneous serial killers, both weaving marriage and murder in and around Chicago during the 1890s and 1900s. Johann Hoch was a debonair bigamist and wife killer who boasted of having perfected a "scientific technique" to romance and seduction. Belle Gunness was a nesting "Black Widow" whose sprawling farm in Northwest Indiana was a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875804365
• ISBN13: 9780875804361
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Northern Illinois University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.5"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher