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Murders in Monmouth: Capital Crimes from the Jersey Shore's Past

Murders in Monmouth: Capital Crimes from the Jersey Shore's Past

by George Joynson
Murders in Monmouth: Capital Crimes from the Jersey Shore's Past

Murders in Monmouth: Capital Crimes from the Jersey Shore's Past

by George Joynson

Overview

Why do people kill? In the case of the young and mentally unstable Frank Zastera, the rationale was as simple as the act was brutal: he wanted William Sheppard's money. In other homicides, such as the still-unsolved 1913 murder of George Harris, the motive for committing the ultimate crime remains obscured for eternity. In Murders in Monmouth, author George Joynson unflinchingly assembles the who, what, when, where and why surrounding twelve high-profile killings perpetrated by various individuals in early twentieth-century Monmouth County.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781596293489
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 11/15/2007
Series: True Crime
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,135,464
Product dimensions: 6.25(w) x 9.38(h) x 0.31(d)

About the Author

George Joynson, MBA, lives in Monmouth County with his wife and son. He is a professional genealogy researcher with twenty years' experience and offers his research skills to others seeking help discovering their ancestral roots through www.gjoynson.com. Joynson can easily be reached at gj@gjoynson.com.

Table of Contents


Introduction     7
Doctor Thompson Conspires to Commit Infanticide     11
Pop Caine Killed in an Argument over Sixty-five Cents     17
The Brown Execution     25
Triple Murder at Sheppard's Squab Farm in Wickatunk     35
Who Shot George Harris?     43
Revenge of the Farinella Brothers     50
Murder in Vetrano's Ice Cream Parlor     57
Moving Picture Operator Elmer Stockton Vaughn     64
Camela's Jealous Cousin     69
The Unwritten Law     75
Unthinkable Filicide     82
Gypsy Joe Slays His Fortunetelling Wife's Lover     93
Jurors     99
Monmouth County Murders, 1900-1930     101
Bibliography     107
Index     117
About the Author     127
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