The Midnight Assassin: Panic, Scandal, and the Hunt for America's First Serial Killer

Sometimes, you just have to accept the fact that some mysteries are never solved,” he said, and chuckled again. “That’s why they are mysteries, you know.”

“Death came always swiftly, silently and certainly,”

The stars appeared. According to what a reporter for the Daily Statesman would later write, the moon and the stars “were at their most effulgent and shot their mellow light over all the earth and in nearly every crevice of our houses and garden fences