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Murder and mystery haunt the shadowy corners of the Victorian Era in Southwest Michigan.

Decades after his supposed death in 1846, a litigious bachelor was discovered to have been buried alive. In 1865, a Battle Creek woman, yearning for her lover, used Spiritualism to conceal poisoning her three children. An 1883 unsolved quadruple homicide near Jackson caused two suicides, one attempted suicide and two assassination attempts. In 1891, a ten-year-old girl adopted from the State School in Coldwater one morning was found dead in an icy river two counties away that same afternoon.

Researcher and author Michael Delaware unfurls these and other stories that shocked Michigan and the nation over a century ago.

Michael Delaware is an Arizona native who left home at age eighteen. He lived fifteen years in Georgia, where he worked as a craftsman, artist, salesperson, manager and owner of a stained- and decorative glass door and window business. He moved to Ann Arbor, Michigan, in 1999 and to Battle Creek in 2001. He still lives there today. In 2022, he launched his podcast, Tales of Southwest Michigan's Past . He is passionate about researching forgotten stories from the Victorian era and is known for his video programs on local cemetery, landmark and biographical history.

• Pages: 192
• Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
• Imprint: The History Press
• Series: True Crime
• Publication Date: 11th March 2024
• State: Michigan
• ISBN: 9781467156073
• Format: Paperback
• BISACs:
  TRUE CRIME / General
  HISTORY / United States / 19th Century
  HISTORY / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)