Wicked Western Kentucky (Autographed copy)

Western Kentucky has always had a dark side, despite being the “Birthplace of Bluegrass Music.” Mary James Trotter, an arrested moonshine-selling grandma, remarked to a judge that she “simply had to sell a little liquor now and then to take care of my four grandchildren.” Rod Ferrell led a bloodsucking vampire cult in Murray, Kentucky, and traumatized parents of the 1990s. In the early morning of July 13, 1928, at the “Castle on the Cumberland,” seven men were put to death in Kentucky’s deadliest night of state-sponsored executions. Join award winning author Richard Parker as he takes you on a journey through fifteen of Western Kentucky’s most nefarious people, places and events.

1. Micajah and Wiley Harpe
2. Darnell-Lane Feud
3. Jesse James
4. Shelby-Jenkins-Taylor Feud
5. Isaac Wolfe Bernheim
6. The Castle on the Cumberland
7. George “Devil” Winston
8. Buckskin Bill’s Wild West Show
9. Prostitution in Paducah
10. Night Riders
11. Pool Road Murders
12. Western Kentucky Moonshine
13. Murder Mansion
14. Leslie Irvin
15. Rod Ferrell

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