Wicked Watertown
Author | : W.F. Jannke III |
Publisher | : Arcadia Publishing |
Total Pages | : 110 |
Release | : 2010-05-13 |
ISBN-10 | : 9781614234135 |
ISBN-13 | : 1614234132 |
Rating | : 4/5 (35 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: Watertown is a perfect place to raise children, where criminal mischief and scandal are the rare exception to the rule. Discover over a century and a half's worth of exceptions. Travel back to the origins of Watertown, when the house next door might be a brothel and the man on the street might be a serial killer. Hear the tale of poor ninety-five-year-old Mary Kodesch, whose son left her to freeze to death in the barn, and that of the two young boys whose 1890 campaign of arson targeted everything from a church to a box factory. Then press on into the violent history of the Cleveland Street poltergeist house as Jannke delivers a thrilling combination of thoroughly researched fact and inexplicable mystery that will leave the hardiest Watertown residents torn between eagerly turning the next page and nervously looking over their shoulders.