Ten Reasons Why Murder At Green
Springs Is High Drama and Significant History
“The story is extraordinary!” explains J. K. Brandau. “Discovery
compelled a chemist to write history and save the legacy!”
- The Hall Case is one of the most extreme examples of
yellow journalism ever!
- Unique circumstances fueled one of the largest
news sensations ever in a state and then repressed it along with
a full twenty-five years of preceding events.
- The story depicts
life in stratified, southern society; themes parallel those of To
Kill a Mockingbird,
but are completely factual.
- The story showcases the insurmountable
obstacles women faced in the man’s world of 1914.
- The suspect
hired her own Pinkerton detective – a rare, documented employment
of Pinkerton operative by a private individual.
- Railroad action
directly impacted a murder investigation.
- Money, politics, and public
opinion drove prosecutors to promote perjury and distortions to
secure conviction.
- Statehouse politics blocked release of an
innocent woman from prison.
- The story is the missing closure to
the great newspaper sensations of the early, twentieth-century
South.
- Drawings, maps, photographs, endnotes, and bibliography
establish the story as a matter of record.
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