Post by CathartesAura17 on Aug 16, 2017 13:16:15 GMT -5
Hey, everyone. Just thought I'd drop a line with a link to the FB page I created for my upcoming true crime book, tentatively (?) titled "Cruel Excesses: Frankie McErlane and the Halfway House Murders". It's the true story of big-city crime invading a small Indiana resort village, and the sensational (and senseless) murders that were the culmination of those conditions.
On a leisurely Sunday night in May of 1924, patrons gathered in a little old frame roadhouse known to locals as the "Halfway House," halfway between Cedar Lake and Crown Point. Toward the end of the night, a crew of gunmen from the South Side of Chicago burst in and laid siege to the place. After all was said and done, bullet holes perforated the walls, glass lay scattered like illegitimate diamonds, blood congealed on the floorboards, and one man was shot through the foot while another, a prominent local attorney, lay dying. The resulting scandal and outrage shook the communities across Lake County, Indiana and spread all the way back to the South Side. As officials struggled to solve the crime, more mysteries were revealed, and readers will get possibly the most comprehensive picture to date of one of the most notorious, yet overlooked, killers in Chicago gangland history.
fb.me/typesetghostCruelExcesses
On a leisurely Sunday night in May of 1924, patrons gathered in a little old frame roadhouse known to locals as the "Halfway House," halfway between Cedar Lake and Crown Point. Toward the end of the night, a crew of gunmen from the South Side of Chicago burst in and laid siege to the place. After all was said and done, bullet holes perforated the walls, glass lay scattered like illegitimate diamonds, blood congealed on the floorboards, and one man was shot through the foot while another, a prominent local attorney, lay dying. The resulting scandal and outrage shook the communities across Lake County, Indiana and spread all the way back to the South Side. As officials struggled to solve the crime, more mysteries were revealed, and readers will get possibly the most comprehensive picture to date of one of the most notorious, yet overlooked, killers in Chicago gangland history.
fb.me/typesetghostCruelExcesses
