The Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis Peters

From the horrible fate of an independent young businesswoman who challenged Victorian mores to the shocking confession of Hayward on the eve of his execution (which, if true, would have made him a serial killer), The Infamous Harry Hayward unfolds a transfixing tale of one of the most notorious criminals in America during the Gilded Age. His life story, told in full for the first time here, takes us into shadowy corners of the nineteenth century, including mesmerism, psychopathy, spiritualism, yellow journalism, and capital punishment. Shawn Francis Peters unravels that sordid, spellbinding story in his account of the trial of Harry Hayward, a serial seducer and schemer whom some deemed a “Svengali, ” others a “Machiavelli, ” and others a “lunatic” and “man without a soul.”Dubbed “one of the greatest criminals the world has ever seen” by the famed detective William Pinkerton, Harry Hayward was an inveterate and cunning plotter of crimes large and small, dabbling in arson, insurance fraud, counterfeiting, and illegal gambling. If you havent done so already, listen to my prior conversation with Shawn about Gilded-Age murderer Harry Hayward at Minnesotas Most Notorious: Where Blood Runs Cold. The murder of Kittie Ging, a twenty-nine-year-old dressmaker, was the final act in a melodrama of seduction and betrayal, petty crimes and monstrous deeds that would obsess reporters and their readers across the nation when the man who likely arranged her killing came to trial the following spring. 293: The Star Route Scandal w/ Shawn Francis Peters - A True Crime History Podcast. 'The Awful Finale' Epilogue: 'I Had a Scheme' Acknowledgments Sources and Suggested Readings Bibliography Illustration Credits Index.Ī fascinating tale of seduction, murder, fraud, coercion-and the trial of the “Minneapolis Monster” On a winter night in 1894, a young woman’s body was found in the middle of a road near Lake Calhoun on the outskirts of Minneapolis. 'The Greatest Villain of the Nineteenth Century' 'You'll Be Wearing Stripes Within a Year' 'The Boldest Thing I Ever Heard of in My Life' 'Don't Under Any Circumstances Squeal on Me' Introduction: 'Under a Cloud of Moral Darkness'.Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 277-281) and index.

The Infamous Harry Hayward by Shawn Francis Peters