Outrage in Ohio: A Rural Murder, Lynching, and Mystery

by David Kimmel

Book Overview

On a hot and dusty Sunday in June 1872, 13-year-old Mary Secaur set off on her two-mile walk home from church. She never arrived. The horrific death of this young girl inspired an illegal interstate pursuit-and-arrest, courtroom dramatics, conflicting confessions, and the daylight lynching of a traveling tin peddler and an intellectually disabled teenager. Who killed Mary Secaur? Were the accused actually guilty? What drove the citizens of Mercer...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0253034221
• ISBN13: 9780253034229
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Length: 254 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher