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Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South

Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South - Hardcover

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Availability:In StockContributor:Lauren Nicole HenleyPublish date:3/13/2026Pages:312
Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807186183ISBN-10:080718618XUPC:9780807186183Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Murder, United StatesBook Topic:Serial Killers, State & LocalSize:9.20 x 6.39 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCKQ7J2E5N

Inquisition for Blood: The Making of a Black Female Serial Killer in the Jim Crow South

For three years in the early 1900s, a serial killer zigzagged across the rice belt region of the United States, using an everyday ax to slaughter Black families living within a mile of the Southern Pacific Railroad's Sunset Route. The similarities among the murders were uncanny, yet lawmen in early twentieth-century America had neither the technology nor the vocabulary to identify the serial...

Language:EnglishPublisher:LSU PressISBN-13:9780807186183ISBN-10:080718618XUPC:9780807186183Book Category:True Crime, HistoryBook Subcategory:Historical, Murder, United StatesBook Topic:Serial Killers, State & LocalSize:9.20 x 6.39 x 1.20 inchesWeight:1.3316Product ID:SCKQ7J2E5N
Lauren Nicole Henley is an assistant professor in the Jepson School of Leadership Studies at the University of Richmond. She earned her PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin.
Publisher: LSU Press

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