Deadly Mischief: The Boy Killers of Twin Falls

by Virginia A. McConnell

A hot August afternoon. A high school teacher on his summer vacation gets his head blown off with his own shotgun by two young hoodlums. Does this sound like the south side of Chicago in the 21st century? It’s not. The place is the rural high desert area of southern Idaho on the Nevada border and the time is 1916. The shooter has just turned 10 and his brother, who ordered the shooting, is 11.

Award-winning historical true crime author Virginia A. McConnell examines the forces that brought together the victim and his killers that summer day, with effects that lasted for decades afterwards.

Her previous works are Arsenic Under the Elms: Murder in Victorian New Haven (Praeger Publishers, 1999); Sympathy for the Devil: The Emmanuel Baptist Murders of Old San Francisco (Praeger Publishers, 2001); Fatal Fortune: The Death of Chicago’s Millionaire Orphan (Praeger Publishers, 2005); The Adventuress: Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age (Kent State University Press, 2010; winner of Gold Medal for true crime by the Independent Book Publishers Association, 2011).

Genres: True Crime

67 pages, Kindle Edition

First published July 3, 2013