WHEN THE SNOW TURNED RED: True Christmas Crimes, Murders and Mysteries from America's Darkest Holidays

Christmas Eve, 1880. A newspaper editor lies bleeding outside a New Mexico church, shot by a man he tried to remove for disturbing a service. Within weeks, three men will be dead and a diplomatic protest will reach the desk of the Secretary of State.This is just one night from When the Snow Turned Red.Across nearly fifty years of American history, from a St. Louis saloon fight over a Stetson hat to a Michigan mining hall where seventy three people died in a stampede after someone shouted "fire," this collection uncovers the true crimes, murders, and mysteries that unfolded when families gathered, drinks were poured, and old grudges finally came due.Inside these pages, you will discover: - The Servant Girl Annihilator, whose Christmas Eve killings finally forced a city to confront a year of terror it had chosen to ignore- The bank robber who dressed as Santa Claus, sparked a shootout, and met his own violent end two years later- The murder ballad born from a Savannah farewell that Bob Dylan and Johnny Cash would later sing- A tobacco farmer's Christmas portrait, taken two weeks before he killed nearly everyone in it- A poisoned Christmas Eve whiskey shipment that killed as many as one hundred people across two states, and the loophole that let the man responsible walk free, and many more...Meticulously researched from period newspapers, trial records, and historical archives, each chapter reconstructs a real case with the pacing of a thriller and the accuracy readers expect from serious true crime. These are not the familiar names from every true crime anthology. They are the forgotten cases, the ones that shocked entire states in their own time and then faded from memory, until now.If you devour true crime anthologies, cold case histories, and stories of Gilded Age and Victorian era America gone wrong, pour yourself something warm, lock the door, and turn the page.Some Christmases are never silent. Scroll up and grab your copy today.