South Carolina Killers

Crimes of Passion

Mark Jones

• Publisher: The History Press
• Year: 2016
• eBook ISBN:
  9781614233602
• Print ISBN:
  9781596293953
• Subtopic: North American History

A South Carolina historian examines a selection of true crime murder stories from the Palmetto State, from 1903 to 2003.
 
Murder leaves no decade unscarred. In 1903, the lieutenant governor of South Carolina shot dead a local newspaper editor, in full view of witnesses. George Stinney was marched to the electric chair in 1944 at age fourteen. A mother made national news in 1994 pleading for the return of her kidnapped sons, when in truth she had driven them to a watery grave herself. Jones spares no chilling detail in describing each of these crimes; all make for fascinating, and terrifying, reading.

Table of contents

• Front Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction: As Long As We Are Able
• Chapter One: Murder in Broad Daylight (1903)
• Chapter Two: Last Man Hanged—The Execution of Daniel Duncan (1911)
• Chapter Three: The Perfect Murder of an SOB (1933)
• Chapter Four: Hip Pocket Justice in Edgefield—The Execution of Sue Logue (1941)
• Chapter Five: Too Young To Die—The Execution of George Stinney Jr. (1944)
• Chapter Six: Perry Deveaux (1975)
• Chapter Seven: A Deadly New Year's Resolution (1992)
• Chapter Eight: The Murder of Rosemary Franco (1994)
• Chapter Nine: A Tragedy in Union—The Sad Saga of Susan Smith (1994)
• Chapter Ten: Obsession—The Death of Mary Lynn Witherspoon (2003)
• Appendix A: Tom Findlay's “Dear John” Letter to Susan Smith
• Appendix B: Susan Smith's Confession
• Bibliography
• About the Author