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Author Keven McQueen proposes a new suspect in the famous 1904 attempted poisoning of local poet Judge Mulligan's family. Join him on a sordid trip through the Horse Capital of the World. From a mayhem-filled day at the county fair in 1854 to the lynching of William Barker at the courthouse a few years later, old-timey Lexington was no place for the faint of heart. This was an age when Lexingtonians sought justice in extralegal ways and sometimes inspired mobs of fellow citizens to join in the villainy, like the assemblage that wreaked awful recompense on adulterous George Grigg for killing his lover's husband. In 1873, Montgomery Hobbs Parker shot his young farmhand John Wills just outside city limits, but the details remain in dispute, just like the unsolved 1908 murder of traveling circus employee Stephen Diesback at the Bluegrass Fairgrounds.

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The darker side of Lexington history

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Keven McQueen was born in Richmond, Kentucky, in 1967. He has degrees in English from Berea College and Eastern Kentucky University (EKU) and is a senior lecturer in composition and world literature at EKU. He has written twenty books, including histories, biographies and works on the supernatural, historical true crime and many strange topics, covering nearly every region of the United States. In addition, he has made many appearances on radio and television and as a guest on podcasts. Look him up on Facebook or at kevenmcqueenstories.com.

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