{"id":46961,"date":"2018-06-13T16:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T22:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=46961"},"modified":"2018-06-13T13:38:22","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T19:38:22","slug":"journalist-kristina-stancil-signs-north-mississippi-murder-mayhem-at-square-books-tuesday-june-19-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/journalist-kristina-stancil-signs-north-mississippi-murder-mayhem-at-square-books-tuesday-june-19-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist Kristina Stancil Signs “North Mississippi Murder & Mayhem” at Square Books Tuesday, June 19, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"

North Mississippi<\/strong>‘s idyllic rolling hills and deep forests hide a history\u00a0<\/span>steeped in blood. America’s first serial killers, the Harpe brothers<\/strong>,\u00a0<\/span>brutally murdered as many as fifty people at the end of the 1700s\u00a0<\/span>before finally meeting their end on the Natchez Trace<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

During\u00a0<\/span>Reconstruction, politician William Clark Falkner<\/strong>, great-grandfather of\u00a0<\/span>the author William Faulkner<\/strong>, was shot in the streets of Ripley<\/strong> by a\u00a0<\/span>former business partner after being elected to the state legislature.\"\"<\/a> <\/span><\/p>\n

In\u00a0<\/span>the 1960s, Samuel Bowers<\/strong> and the Mississippi Klan tried to start a\u00a0<\/span>national race war by orchestrating the Freedom Summer murders<\/strong> and the Ole Miss Riot<\/strong>. <\/span><\/p>\n

Kristina\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>Stancil<\/strong> details the shadowy side of North Mississippi.<\/span><\/p>\n

Kristina Stancil is an author and freelance journalist. She holds a master\u2019s in humanities with a\u00a0<\/span>concentration in English from Tiffin as well as a B.A. in social and criminal justice from\u00a0<\/span>Ashford University. Her previous written works include horror movie reviews for the\u00a0<\/span>Examiner.com, Blood Reign<\/em> Literary Magazine, Bayou Entertainment Guide<\/em>, and the Horror\u00a0<\/span>Writer\u2019s Members\u2019 Association Newsletter.\u00a0\"The<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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