Blood Justice

It furthers the University's objective of excellence in research, scholarship, and education by publishing worldwide. Academic Skip to main content. Choose your country or region Close. Ebook This title is available as an ebook. To purchase, visit your preferred ebook provider. Blood Justice The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker Howard Smead Based on previously unreleased FBI and Justice Department documents, extensive interviews with many of the surviving principals involved in the case, and a variety of newspaper accounts, Smead reconstructs the full story of the Parker lynching--one of the last lynchings in America--that occurred in in Poplarville, Mississippi.

Murphy, Hanover College "A brutal yet compelling document of a troubled time. Hall, Liberty University "An excellent, thorough book. This Worldwide Struggle Sarah Azaransky. They Knew Lincoln John E. Washington and Kate Masur. A Dream of the Future Nathan Cardon. Her husband Arthur never gave up hope that the future would bring enough evidence to close the case. But it was the past that held the clue.

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In , fifty-five-year old In , flight attendant Nancy Ludwig checked in to an airport hotel near Detroit. In , fifty-five-year old Margarette Eby, a music professor, met the same grisly death at her cottage in Flint, Michigan. The case went cold-until six years later when the victim's son Mark came upon the story of Nancy Ludwig's slaying. With nothing to go on but intuition, he called authorities, certain that the same fiend committed both crimes.

A cunning sting operation yielded irrefutable DNA evidence, and authorities were led to the home of respected navy veteran Jeffrey Gorton living quietly with his wife and two children. But his cold-blooded secrets were only beginning to come to light leaving fears that there were more victims yet to be found in a killing spree that had finally come to an end. Paperback , pages. Published September 13th by St. Martin's Paperbacks first published September 1st To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

To ask other readers questions about Blood Justice , please sign up. There are pictures of three individuals on the paperback cover of this book. Who are these people? There is no mention of it in the entire book. See 1 question about Blood Justice…. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. Poorly written and long winded. This book has pretty much every TR book writing mistake you can make. The first gets a bit of detail but the second has almost none.

We get a whole Poorly written and long winded. We get a whole life story of her hubby but nearly nothing on her and he doesn't factor into the case at all. It was tedious and boring. May 18, Gloria Piper rated it really liked it Shelves: In , Margarette Eby, a college professor suffered a rape-murder. In , Nancy Ludwig, a flight attendant, suffered the same type of rape-murder. The perpetrator was never found until years later. With the advance of DNA, computer, and other technologies, passionate investigators took up the cold cases. FBI, state police and local law enforcement cooperated during years of meticulous and tedious legwork.

As a result, they were able to clear suspects that otherwise may have been wrongly convi In , Margarette Eby, a college professor suffered a rape-murder. As a result, they were able to clear suspects that otherwise may have been wrongly convicted because everything about them yelled guilty, except for the mismatch of DNA. Every word of this story is true. It combines not only details of the crimes but the police procedural and the courtroom drama.

Certain individuals stand out for their dedication, expertise, and integrity. Therefore included are biographies of varying length. With so many characters involved, it's good to read the preface after you finish the story. And in this monumental work, every word holds the reader's interest.

Nevertheless at times imprecise pronoun usage made me wonder who the author was referring to. And sometimes the order of the telling got confusing. The author points out the need for funding to shorten the backlog of DNA tests that not only get criminals off the streets but can free those who are wrongly imprisoned. Feb 06, Katherine Addison rated it really liked it Shelves: Jeffrey Wayne Gorton was caught and prosecuted legally, not extralegally, and the families of the victims, while involved, were not spearheading anything; on the other hand, it's not TWO devastated families, it's THREE, and I'm not sure who they're leaving out, given that the photographs on the cover are two photographs of Gorton and one of I think Margarette Eby--given the crappy interior photographs of the murdered women, it's difficult to be sure, but I'm pretty confident those eyebrows are Eby's.

So where's Nancy Ludwig? And is it her family we're discounting as devastated? Because it's hard to imagine anyone MORE devastated than Gorton's wife who knew he had a fetish for women's underwear, but had no idea it went any further and two children. And while I'm nitpicking, that silhouette at the top, with the dilapidated house and the tree? What the hell is that supposed to be? Nancy Ludwig was murdered in the Detroit Airport Hilton. The virtual tour of Applewood, btw, does not mention the grisly history attached to the Gatehouse.

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Nothing less like that shack can be imagined. And Jeff Gorton grew up in a middle-class household and himself maintained a middle-class household. No creepy isolated shacks, thank you. Henderson isn't a bad writer, and he has by god done his homework. He talked to everybody he could the two people who refused to be interviewed are 1 Gorton and 2 the bureaucrat in Romulus who forced eleven of seventeen command officers in the Romulus Police Department into early retirement two weeks after Gorton's sentencing ; he dug into the inter- and intradepartmental politics that bedeviled the Flint police, the Romulus police, and the Michigan State Police, and he did a good job of presenting both sides, particularly in the ridiculous, petty war between the MSP and the Genesee County Prosecutor's office.

Jeffrey Gorton

He even talked to the public defender who made the world's worst botch of Gorton's defense in his trial for Nancy Ludwig's murder when the prosecutor calls the defense lawyer at home and tells him to get his head out of his ass, you know you are looking at a very special version of bad and got his version of what went wrong. Henderson's at his best when he's discussing the lawyers and the judge and what happened in the courtroom, and I'm actually giving him that fourth star for that part of the book i. Henderson's worst problem is that he doesn't trust his material and therefore tries to jazz it up with flashbacks and flashforwards and intercutting different timelines, whereas I have come to the conclusion that with true crime, you are best served by telling the story in the simplest way possible.

If you need fancy rhetorical tricks, you will know. And this story, which is so complicated--Jeff Gorton's criminal history in Florida, the Eby murder and its investigation, the Ludwig murder and its investigation, the cold case squad that decided to take a second look ten years later, and then the forensic investigation that was able, because of the leaps and bounds by which DNA analysis had progressed in those ten years, to link the two murders by the DNA of the murderer's semen, then identified a partial print left in blood in Margarette Eby's bathroom as belonging to Jeffrey Wayne Gorton.

And then the story of how they actually caught Gorton. This whole tangled history doesn't need to be made more complicated with narratological flim-flam. It needs to be presented in a way that is as easy to follow as possible, and Henderson irritated me mightily by failing to understand that. Everyone involved seemed confident that Gorton had murdered more than twice--and I would tend to agree.

The escalation from knocking women down and stealing their underwear in Florida to rape, torture, near decapitation, and necrophilia in Michigan is so dramatic that it seems like Margarette Eby can't have been his first homicide victim. But if any progress has been made on linking Gorton to unsolved cases in Florida, Michigan, or anywhere else, nobody's talking about it.

Dec 10, Stephanie rated it did not like it Shelves: In general, books written about true crime in the US are not as well written as those written in the UK. One of the reasons I feel this way - aside from the skill level of the writing, is that the ones written in the US tend to devolve to the level of a "police procedural". As interesting as forensics -can- be, not every case has something new to add to the area of forensics for someone who reads such cases regularly.

The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker

Since DNA testing has become so advanced; and such a strong deciding factor, t In general, books written about true crime in the US are not as well written as those written in the UK. Since DNA testing has become so advanced; and such a strong deciding factor, there is a sameness to cases which depend on the DNA results. DNA was the key in this case, so nothing new or interesting there. But his cold-blooded secrets were only beginning to come to light leaving fears that there were more victims yet to be found in a killing spree that had finally come to an end.

Tom Henderson, a native of Michigan, has worked as a news reporter for many years. He has been a sportswriter for "Detroit Free Press, " a freelance writer for "Detroit News, " and a senior editor for a monthly business publication called "Corporate Detroit. Would you like to tell us about a lower price? If you are a seller for this product, would you like to suggest updates through seller support? Read more Read less. Customers who viewed this item also viewed. Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1.

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Showing of 78 reviews. Top Reviews Most recent Top Reviews. There was a problem filtering reviews right now. Please try again later. Kindle Edition Verified Purchase. If you were to write a book about crime -- I haven't, although I've read enough for many lifetimes -- you would probably realize that telling the story in a strictly linear format would be most likely impossible. Well, almost without exception, you have more than one character -- you have the killer, you have the victims, and you have the police and prosecution, to name but a few -- and unless the reader is Kim Peek who was able to read more than one page at a time, as a writer, you will have to "time shift" here and there to tell parallel stories in an unfortunately non-linear format.

It is the nature of the beast. This is my first read from Tom Henderson, and I will admit, about two-thirds of the way through, I was convinced I'd give "Blood Justice" a 5. But while this book is really strong -- it is beyond a page-turner, and I would have finished it in one day if given the time -- it does have its issues, issues just like every other book you'll ever read.

The non-linear structure forced Mr. Henderson to repeat quite a bit of information quite a few times in quite a few places. And yes, "quite a" was on purpose, for effect. It's almost like you're watching some true-crime TV, where the show cuts to commercial, and then upon returning, the narrator says something like, "When we were last discussing this story, Nancy Ludwig was just murdered, in a hotel room in the Detroit area. But in written format, there are usually techniques to avoid this.

Reorganizing the events is one way, although not always pleasurable. I felt that Mr.

Henderson pandered a bit too much to some of the people in law enforcement, and a judge in particular. I have no idea what the politics are like in writing a book like this, but I'm guessing that beforehand, you need to line up people and ask in advance if they would be willing to be interviewed. So, you'd probably have to "kiss up" to some of the real-life characters.

I think that Mr. I have read quite a few books from profilers, and yes, while they all have "egos" -- who doesn't?

Do they misfire every once in a while? But they base their profiles on interviews conducted over many years with real-life serial killers, and most of the time, they're right.