Description
In 1896, in Digby, Nova Scotia, someone brutally murdered Annie Kempton, a young woman. Suspicion quickly focussed on Peter Wheeler, who claimed to have been the first to find the body. Local opinion, amplified by newspaper headlines, moved more quickly than legal processes to pin the guilt on Peter. But a Halifax reporter covering the murder and the ensuing trial began to have doubts. Some of the forensic evidence did not seem to line up with witness statements and evidence like lines of footprints in heavy snow.
Did Peter Wheeler really do it? Or was he found 'guilty by convenience'?
Author: Laura Churchill Duke
Publisher: Moose House Publications
Published: 09/27/2024
Pages: 282
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.84lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.59d
ISBN13: 9781998149506
ISBN10: 1998149501
BISAC Categories:
- True Crime | Murder | General
- True Crime | Historical
- History | Canada | Provincial, Territorial & Local | General