Murder & Mayhem in Central Massachusetts

“A chilling chronicle of local true-life murders that reach back into the long-forgotten seamy history of Worcester County” ( Vitality Magazine ). The bucolic image of central Massachusetts belies a dark and sometimes deadly past. Grisly crimes and grim misdeeds reach back to colonial settlement in Worcester County, from an escaped slave hanged for rape in 1768 at the Worcester jail to the Sutton choir singer convicted of drowning his wife in 1935. Henry Hammond’s 1899 suicide and the others tha