True Crime in the Hoosier Heartland with Author Janis Thornton

Whose body was found stuffed into a dresser drawer at the Claypool Hotel and how did it get there? How old was the youngest Hoosier ever indicted and tried for murder? Whatever became of Elwood’s notorious “Gun Girl”? Where was Indiana’s first school shooting that resulted in fatalities, and who was the shooter? What did the first two men to die in Indiana’s electric chair have in common? Why did Rising Sun’s James Gillespie kill his twin sister? And how much did the state charge Dearborn County to execute its own Dink Carter for killing 5 members of his wife’s family?

Join Hoosier author Janis Thornton for answers to these disturbing questions- and more- as she introduces you to some of the most unsettling but nonetheless fascinating, long-forgotten, chilling incidents that gripped the Hoosier Heartland from the 1880s through 1960.