HISTORICAL TRUE CRIME FORGOTTEN MICHIGAN MURDERS PRESENTED BY ALLIE SEIBERT
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Author and historian Allie Seibert has released her newest book,
Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan’s Darkest Murders Forgotten By Time, a gripping narrative nonfiction work that uncovers five long-forgotten murder
cases from across Michigan between 1879 and 1931. Each story once
dominated headlines, but was ultimately lost to time. Until now.
Through deep archival research, including newspaper clippings, trial
transcripts, vital records, photographs, and handwritten letters, Seibert Stories in Bloodstained include:
reconstructs these haunting crimes in vivid detail. Many of
the documents she references have never been published,
offering new insight into crimes that shaped their
communities and shocked the public, but have since
slipped through the cracks of history.
Bloodstained dives into the darker corners of Michigan’s
past. But perhaps more than that, it examines the ways
crime, fear, and mental illness were handled in earlier eras,
and how those same patterns still echo today. By
reassembling these long-buried cases, Seibert offers not
only a fresh perspective on Michigan history, but a
reflection on justice, memory, and the human cost of
being forgotten.
A Hadley man who murdered his wife and child in 1879
and faked a suicide to avoid capture.
A Flint woman who shot her lover in 1931, then created a
life even more fascinating than her criminal past.
A man in Grand Rapids who used matrimonial ads to
lure woman across the Midwest in 1916, and who may
have been one of Michigan’s first serial killers.
A 1917 unsolved murder of a teenage girl in Alma with
newly uncovered evidence.
The 1929 murder of a woman in Kalamazoo who was
accused of being a witch.
By bringing these forgotten cases back into the light, Bloodstained invites
readers to reflect not just on the past, but on the stories we choose to
preserve-- and those we let slip away.
Starting August 1, sign up will be online at tamaracklibrary.org. Prior to August 1, please call 989-352-6274. This is a free program that is open to the public.
Author and historian Allie Seibert has released her newest book,
Bloodstained: Exploring Michigan’s Darkest Murders Forgotten By Time, a gripping narrative nonfiction work that uncovers five long-forgotten murder
cases from across Michigan between 1879 and 1931. Each story once
dominated headlines, but was ultimately lost to time. Until now.
Through deep archival research, including newspaper clippings, trial
transcripts, vital records, photographs, and handwritten letters, Seibert Stories in Bloodstained include:
reconstructs these haunting crimes in vivid detail. Many of
the documents she references have never been published,
offering new insight into crimes that shaped their
communities and shocked the public, but have since
slipped through the cracks of history.
Bloodstained dives into the darker corners of Michigan’s
past. But perhaps more than that, it examines the ways
crime, fear, and mental illness were handled in earlier eras,
and how those same patterns still echo today. By
reassembling these long-buried cases, Seibert offers not
only a fresh perspective on Michigan history, but a
reflection on justice, memory, and the human cost of
being forgotten.
A Hadley man who murdered his wife and child in 1879
and faked a suicide to avoid capture.
A Flint woman who shot her lover in 1931, then created a
life even more fascinating than her criminal past.
A man in Grand Rapids who used matrimonial ads to
lure woman across the Midwest in 1916, and who may
have been one of Michigan’s first serial killers.
A 1917 unsolved murder of a teenage girl in Alma with
newly uncovered evidence.
The 1929 murder of a woman in Kalamazoo who was
accused of being a witch.
By bringing these forgotten cases back into the light, Bloodstained invites
readers to reflect not just on the past, but on the stories we choose to
preserve-- and those we let slip away.
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