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Lights Out!: The Murder of L. S. LaPrade
In 1880, Leonidas S. LaPrade came up missing from his rural Robertson County Tennessee home near Adams. The search lasted for several days, and when the body was found concealed in a sinkhole, it was obvious he had been hideously tortured and murdered. Based on a true event, this murder and the subsequent search, arrest, trial, and lynching of the alleged perpetrators made headlines the world over.
91 pages, Kindle Edition
Published March 4, 2018
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October 13, 2024
Hello Dewey
If you would like to know what really happened to LaPrade, you should read my book about the murder and mutilation of George Chuter in Byfleet, Surrey in 1888. You will find it familiar territory, despite the distance of 3500 miles and eight years. Yes, ANXIOUS was PUBLICUS. There is even a 19th Century trophy photo of PUBLICUS standing alone next to the Robertson County Courthouse. His face is deliberately in shadow. Do you have it? Yes, I know who he was, and why he and his accomplices did what they did. And who do you think shot the photo of the innocent black men hanging from the courthouse porch? This photo was not published in any 19th Century newspaper. And yet a copy was preserved by the courthouse. Where did it come from?
My book, The Byfleet Murder and Mutilation, Volume 1, is now published on Amazon in three editions. Volume 2, with the solution and a tsunami of new-found evidence, will follow in 2025. Color is essential to see the embedded evidence. The hardcover edition is printed in Premium Colors--hence the exorbitant pricetag. You can contact me, if you wish, at noteworthyeditions@gmail.com .
LaPrade was the unlucky, random victim of a cult of serial killers, as was George Chuter--and others. The dimensions of this series of murders was impossible to envision in the 19th Century. Today, they are routine.
Best wishes and warm regards,
Mark Starr
If you would like to know what really happened to LaPrade, you should read my book about the murder and mutilation of George Chuter in Byfleet, Surrey in 1888. You will find it familiar territory, despite the distance of 3500 miles and eight years. Yes, ANXIOUS was PUBLICUS. There is even a 19th Century trophy photo of PUBLICUS standing alone next to the Robertson County Courthouse. His face is deliberately in shadow. Do you have it? Yes, I know who he was, and why he and his accomplices did what they did. And who do you think shot the photo of the innocent black men hanging from the courthouse porch? This photo was not published in any 19th Century newspaper. And yet a copy was preserved by the courthouse. Where did it come from?
My book, The Byfleet Murder and Mutilation, Volume 1, is now published on Amazon in three editions. Volume 2, with the solution and a tsunami of new-found evidence, will follow in 2025. Color is essential to see the embedded evidence. The hardcover edition is printed in Premium Colors--hence the exorbitant pricetag. You can contact me, if you wish, at noteworthyeditions@gmail.com .
LaPrade was the unlucky, random victim of a cult of serial killers, as was George Chuter--and others. The dimensions of this series of murders was impossible to envision in the 19th Century. Today, they are routine.
Best wishes and warm regards,
Mark Starr
March 25, 2018
Awesome story
I couldn't put the book down, it kept me guessing ... And the best part this is history in my home town.
I couldn't put the book down, it kept me guessing ... And the best part this is history in my home town.
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