At 2:21 am on September 8, 1896, authorities in Nova Scotia killed an innocent man. Peter Wheeler — a "coloured" man accused of murdering a white girl — was strung up under a porch with a slipknot...
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Auteur: Komar, DebraSommaire:Shortlisted, Arthur Ellis Best Non-Fiction Crime Book Award. In 1869, in the woods just outside of the bustling port city of Saint John, a group of teenaged berry pickers discovered several badly...
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Auteur: Komar, DebraSommaire:Winner, Canadian Authors Award for Canadian History, Jeanne Clarke Memorial Local History Award, and Prince Edward Island Book Award for Non-Fiction. Is it possible to reach back in time and solve...
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Auteur: Komar, DebraSommaire:Shortlisted, Democracy 250 Atlantic Book Award for Historical Writing. On a frigid February evening in 1805, Amos Babcock brutally murdered Mercy Hall. Believing that he was being instructed by...
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Auteur: Komar, DebraSommaire:In 1921, the RCMP arrested two Copper Inuit men under suspicion that the two had murdered their uncle. Both men confessed to the crime through a police interpreter, though the "confession" was...