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North Mississippi's idyllic rolling hills and deep forests hide a history steeped in blood. America's first serial killers, the Harpe brothers, brutally murdered as many as fifty people at the end of the 1700s before finally meeting their end on the Natchez Trace. During Reconstruction, politician William Clark Falkner, great-grandfather of the author William Faulkner, was shot in the streets of Ripley by a former business partner after being elected to the state legislature. In the 1960s, Samuel Bowers and the Mississippi Klan tried to start a national race war by orchestrating the Freedom Summer murders and the Ole Miss Riot. Kristina Stancil details the shadowy side of North Mississippi.

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jam-packed with heinous crimes that linger in the shadows of North Mississippi's past. Hottytoddy.com At an age when most little girls around her were hosting tea parties for their Barbie Dolls, Kristina Stancil was doing book reports on serial killers. Stancil's lifelong fascination with crime and the reasons people do it has paid off in the form of her new book, North Mississippi Murder & Mayhem. The book tells the stories of some of Mississippi's most notorious killers, beginning in the 1700s and going into the 20th Century. I had planned to write a book called 'The Devil Came to New Orleans, ' about crimes that occurred there, primarily hate crimes, Stancil said. The original editor I spoke with said it would be hard for me to travel back and forth from North Mississippi, where I live, to New Orleans. So I started researching murderers in North Mississippi. Oxford Eagle

At an age when most little girls around her were hosting tea parties for their Barbie Dolls, Kristina Stancil was doing book reports on serial killers. Stancil's lifelong fascination with crime and the reasons people do it has paid off in the form of her new book, North Mississippi Murder & Mayhem. The book tells the stories of some of Mississippi's most notorious killers, beginning in the 1700s and going into the 20th Century. I had planned to write a book called 'The Devil Came to New Orleans, ' about crimes that occurred there, primarily hate crimes, Stancil said. The original editor I spoke with said it would be hard for me to travel back and forth from North Mississippi, where I live, to New Orleans. So I started researching murderers in North Mississippi. Oxford Eagle jam-packed with heinous crimes that linger in the shadows of North Mississippi's past. Hottytoddy.com

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Kristina Stancil has a master's degree in English from Tiffin University. Originally from Louisiana, she now lives in the North Mississippi area. Stancil is a regular contributor to Serial Killer Magazine and Halloween Haunts. She has previously contributed to the Houma Courier and was interviewed as the August 2013 Fresh Blood Author of the Month. She is currently studying to be a criminologist.

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