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Details the 1895 arrest and trial of a medical student for the grisly murder of two young women inside San Francisco's Emmanuel Baptist Church in what the press of the day characterized as a reenactment of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.

Table of Contents

Introduction
In Plain Sight
Missing!
The Durrants of Toronto
The Little Quakeress
Holy Week Horrors
The Prince of City Prison
The Inquest, and a Trial by "Noose" Paper
Knee-deep in the Hoopla: The Road to Trial
The Case for the Prosecution
Theo Takes the Stand
"Mamma's Sweetheart": Appeals and an Execution
Killer Angel: Murder in the Emmanuel Baptist Church
Epilogue
Selected Bibliography

About the Author

VIRGINIA A. MCCONNELL teaches English Literature, Speech, and Criminal Justice at Walla Walla Community College's Clarkston Center in Clarkston, Washington, and lives on 30 acres of land in Idaho.

Reviews

"Virginia McConnell reconstructs in powerful detail the 1895 church steeple slayings of two young girls in San Francisco. This double crime, for which Theo Durrant went to the San Quentin gallows, still holds fascination after more than a century. McConnell not only captures the horrors of the events; she also illuminates striking contrasts between the law enforcement and judicial concepts of that era and the present."-Harry Farrell, author of Edgar Award winner Swift Justice: Shallow Grave in Trinity County

"With this, her second book, Virginia A. McConnell establishes herself as the leading raconteur of Victorian true crime."-Hal Higdon, Author Leopold & Loeb: The Crime of the Century