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Three Sisters in Black
- Author
- Norman Zierold
- Narrator
- Gabrielle de Cuir
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Publish Date
- 18 June 2019
- Run Time
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.
On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in the bathtub—dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There was even a note left behind.
But it would not take authorities long to discover that Ocey’s death was no suicide. And Ocey’s own mother and two aunts were far from the sorrowful caretakers they appeared to be.
In fact, behind the veils of their strange black mourning clothes, they were monsters, having tormented Ocey almost since birth in a sick pattern of both physical and mental abuse, after a lifetime of which the women planned to cash in on poor Ocey’s sad and inevitable death.
An Edgar Award finalist, Three Sisters in Black is the true story of a gothic, gaslight nightmare that fascinated, shocked, and baffled the nation—and the disturbed women who almost got away with murder.
Critics Review
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“A criminal curio of bona fide fascination.”
Kirkus Reviews
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“Fascinating detective work…An enigmatic case…Entertaining for the morbidly curious.”
Publishers Weekly
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“Zierold does a splendid job of reconstructing the events.”
Pittsburgh Press
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“Suburban New Jersey has been the scene of some memorable homicides, but it would be hard to beat this 1909 beauty involving some of the best (or perhaps the worst) people.”
Dallas Morning News
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Details
- Author
- Norman Zierold
- Narrator
- Gabrielle de Cuir
- Duration
- 8 hours 31 minutes
- Release Date
- 18 June 2019
- ISBN
- 9781982643621
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Blackstone Publishing
- Genre
- True crime: serial killers and murderers, History of the Americas, Local history, Relationships and families: advice and issues
Synopsis
In 1909, a bathtub drowning became one of the most famous and bizarre criminal cases in American history.On November 29, 1909, police were called to a ramshackle home in East Orange, New Jersey, where they found the emaciated body of twenty-four-year-old Oceana “Ocey” Snead facedown in the bathtub—dead of an apparent suicide by drowning. There was even a note left behind.But it would not take authorities long to discover that Ocey’s death was no suicide. And Ocey’s own mother and two aunts were far from the sorrowful caretakers they appeared to be.In fact, behind the veils of their strange black mourning clothes, they were monsters, having tormented Ocey almost since birth in a sick pattern of both physical and mental abuse, after a lifetime of which the women planned to cash in on poor Ocey’s sad and inevitable death.An Edgar Award finalist, Three Sisters in Black is the true story of a gothic, gaslight nightmare that fascinated, shocked, and baffled the nation—and the disturbed women who almost got away with murder.
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