Bøger af Ken H Fortenberry

This is a fascinating, well-researched two short-story collection of sensational murders that occurred in the late 19th and early 20th centuries in Catawba County, North Carolina, but made headlines around the world. The stories revolve around love, lust, jealousy and cold-blooded murder. White Beauty, Black Beast is the story of "Aunt Sarah" Eller Wycoff who served most of her life - more than 40 years - in North Carolina's state penitentiary as an accessory to murder. She refused pardons from five governors that would have set her free and allowed her to go home. Three years before she died at age 78, the death-bed confession of someone she knew was her final ticket to freedom, but again she refused the pardon and decided to stay behind bars. A model prisoner from the moment the steel doors closed behind her in 1879, she spent the last twenty years of her life confined to her cot and a wheelchair. Keeping a lifelong promise, she went to her death with her lips sealed about the illicit affair she had with her lover, a black man who was hanged for the murder of her husband. The second story, Hiding in Plain Sight: The Two Lives of Kohler Holdsclaw, captures the life of a young World War 1 veteran-turned fugitive who was convicted of killing a well-respected married man who made unwanted advances on the young woman he dearly loved and intended to marry. He disappeared twice but was always hiding in plain sight.

Dubbed by The New York Times as one of the "most vexing and unexplained" mysteries in aviation history, the crash of Pan American World Airways Flight 7 in November 1957 resulted in many deaths and remains officially unsolved to this day. But Ken Fortenberry, an award-winning journalist whose father was the copilot and navigator aboard the ill-fated plane, has devoted nearly sixty years of his life to unraveling this cold-case mystery, and has come to a staggering conclusion: that the victims of the crash were deliberately murdered. A remarkably researched book packed with information and emotion, Flight 7 Is Missing: The Search for My Father's Killer is a gripping page-turner that reads like a fast-paced murder mystery. Join Fortenberry on his crusade as he tirelessly tracks down every possible lead and eventually exposes the person he believes responsible for this tragic crime. Capt. John J. Nance, Alaska Airlines (Author and Aviation Analyst, ABC World News): To we professional pilots routinely flying the oceans of planet earth, the possibility that our loved ones back home might someday be told that our flight is missing is beyond a recurring nightmare. Author Ken Fortenberry yanks you into the dark heart of such a nightmare as he chases the missing answers to a major airline disaster across the cold trails of six decades, all to answer the key question which has haunted him since his early years: Who killed his father. This is a must-read!