Big Love in Little Egypt: The True Crimes of Lawrence Hight and Elsie Sweetin
Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Crimes & Criminals, Murder, True Crime, History, Americas
| Author: | Richard O Jones | ISBN: | 9781311818102 |
| Publisher: | Richard O Jones | Publication: | November 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition | Language: | English |
| Author: | Richard O Jones |
| ISBN: | 9781311818102 |
| Publisher: | Richard O Jones |
| Publication: | November 10, 2015 |
| Imprint: | Smashwords Edition |
| Language: | English |
The tongues of Ina, Illinois, were already wagging about the friendship between the Reverend Lawrence Hight, the local circuit-riding Methodist preacher, and the pretty young housewife Elsie Sweetin when their spouses turned up dead from similar sudden illnesses just a couple of months apart in the summer and fall of 1924. Was it food poisoning as the doctors first said? Or something more sinister? True Crime Historian Richard O Jones recounts the gossip, the confessions and the trials of the couple that came to be known as "The Poison Pair of Little Egypt."
The tongues of Ina, Illinois, were already wagging about the friendship between the Reverend Lawrence Hight, the local circuit-riding Methodist preacher, and the pretty young housewife Elsie Sweetin when their spouses turned up dead from similar sudden illnesses just a couple of months apart in the summer and fall of 1924. Was it food poisoning as the doctors first said? Or something more sinister? True Crime Historian Richard O Jones recounts the gossip, the confessions and the trials of the couple that came to be known as "The Poison Pair of Little Egypt."
