Spilt Blood

Curt Dalton writes about 10 incredible, but true, stories of Dayton murders that took place during the city's first one hundred years, including...* John McAfee, whose murder of his wife and affair with the girl next door still lives on in song nearly two hundred years later* Francis Dick, who bludgeoned his mother-in-law in an attempt to win back his wife* John Dobbins, a Civil War deserter who danced a "hoe-down" on his way to the scaffold* James Murphy, the lieutenant of a Dayton street gang, who was hung twice for his crimes... and more tales of murder, violence and suicide from the Gem City.