Category: Books
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Who Murdered Lizzie?
Who Murdered Lizzie? My Family Story of the Brutal Crime of 1884 that Shocked the City of Roanoke, Virginia A brutal crime ripped from the headlines . . . of 1884! Who snatched 14 year old Lizzie Wilson off the streets that fateful night? Who cut her throat and tossed her corpse into an empty…
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Flowers for Dana
the 1949 Murder of Dana Marie Weaver in the “Star City” Roanoke, Virginia On Mother’s Day 1949, someone killed a high school girl in a church kitchen. The janitor found her body the next morning…. brutally beaten… strangled… lying in a pool of blood. Baffled police got an anonymous phone tip to go ask her…
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Intangible
Yasushi Tanaka and Louise G. Cann, A Marriage of Artist and Author This is the first English-language biography of the Japanese artist Yasushi Tanaka and his American wife Louise G. Cann with never-before published details. Their unconventional marriage in the early 20th century challenged Victorian Era norms and defied anti-Asian prejudices. [link to Saitama museum]…