Obsession (West Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, 1918)

Mary and Maeterlinch Pavlinich of West Bridgewater, Pennsylvania, took in boarders to earn extra income. So, they opened their home to George Karas, a swarthy, mustachioed charmer from old-world Austria. The thirty-nine-year-old had the square shoulders of a boxer and … Continued

Shell Game (Kansas City, Missouri, 1912)

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The year was growing old, late October was approaching, and darkness blanketed Kansas City. People had become nothing more than silhouettes in the early morning hours of October 18, 1912. Al Hatch, perhaps the best-known and certainly the most gregarious … Continued