The true crime books of J.R. StranahanVirginia edition
True Crime Virginia: The Roanoke Files by J.R. Stranahan, book cover

True Crime Virginia / Book 5

The Roanoke Files

Fourteen files from Roanoke and Southwest Virginia examine cases from mountain roads, family homes, campuses, a courthouse, and a television assignment. The book includes the Virginia Tech and Appalachian School of Law attacks, the Martinsville Seven, the Short family investigation, Alison Parker and Adam Ward, and older records reaching the Hillsville courthouse shootings. It preserves the difference between an open investigation, a verdict, a pardon, and later scientific review.

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Inside the book

The cases inside.

  1. Thirty-Two Stones
  2. The Place a Body Should Have Been
  3. Four Names in Vinton
  4. The Jury Pulaski Could Not Easily Find
  5. The Sentence That Divided the Conspirators
  6. The Evidence After the Execution
  7. Two Judgments and a Long Dispute
  8. A Missing Child and Two Different Judgments
  9. Six Juries, Seven Death Sentences
  10. The School in Grundy
  11. The Short Family
  12. Alison Parker and Adam Ward
  13. The Hillsville Courthouse Shootings
  14. The Appointment at Kings Chase
  15. Where the Record Ends
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